Definizione monolingua

smother

smother (third-person singular simple present smothers, present participle smothering, simple past and past participle smothered)

1. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
2. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
3. (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committees report was smothered.
4. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
5. (transitive) To daub or smear.
6. (intransitive) To be suffocated.
7. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
8. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
9. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
10. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball
    • 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, BBC Sport:

      Emmanuel Adebayors touch proved a fraction heavy as he guided Van der Vaarts exquisite long ball round John Ruddy, before the goalkeeper did well to smother Bales shot from Modrics weighted pass.

11. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kickers boot, dribbling away.

smother (plural smothers)

1. That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.
2. The state of being stifled; suppression.
3. (Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see above).

Definizione dizionario smother

	soffocare
	to suffocate

	affogare
	in cookery: to cook in a close dish

	colmare
	in cookery: to cook in a close dish

	estinguere
	to extinguish or deaden

	ricoprire
	in cookery: to cook in a close dish

	spegnere
	to extinguish or deaden

coprire

fumo soffocante

reprimere

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To be suffocated.

(Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see above).

(intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.

(intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.

(transitive) To daub or smear.

The state of being stifled; suppression.

That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.

(transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.

to reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity

(transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.

(transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered.

(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.

(Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.

(intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.

to breathe with great difficulty