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smotheration|smʌðəˈreɪʃən|
[Jocularly f. smother v. + -ation: cf. botheration.]
1. The action of smothering; the state or condition of being smothered; suffocation.
1826J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XIX. 242 Nor shall we ever forget our horror on being within an ace of smotheration in the cellar. 1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 235 Accidental death, by natural smotheration in the snow. 1882W. M. Williams Sci. in Short Chapters 360 To return the carbonic acid..to the already suffocated fire can only add smother to smotheration.
2. U.S. ‘A sailor's dish of beef and pork smothered with potatoes’ (Cent. Dict.). |