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smothersmoth‧er /ˈsmʌðə $ -ər/ verb [transitive]   smotherOrigin: 1100-1200 smother ‘thick smoke’ (12-19 centuries), from Old English smorian ‘to suffocate’ VERB TABLEsmother |
| Present | I, you, we, they | smother | | he, she, it | smothers | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | smothered | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have smothered | | he, she, it | has smothered | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had smothered | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will smother | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have smothered |
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| Present | I | am smothering | | he, she, it | is smothering | | you, we, they | are smothering | | Past | I, he, she, it | was smothering | | you, we, they | were smothering | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been smothering | | he, she, it | has been smothering | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been smothering | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be smothering | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been smothering |
- I grabbed a blanket and tried to smother the flames.
- I had to end it with Tim - I felt like I was being smothered.
- If the victim's clothes are burning, use a blanket to smother the flames.
- Nancy smothered a smile.
- The Phillies' Curt Schilling smothered the Blue Jays, 5-0.
- When she was 18, she smothered her 11-month-old daughter.
- Caliph Marwan Ibn al-Hakam: smothered by his wife, Umm Khalid.
- He flipped and stirred, measuring lumps of rice on to plates which he then smothered with a brownish stroganoff.
- It smothered him like dense mist.
- One girl in the ambulance was smothered in blood.
- The story - and, apparently, the memory - had been smothered by greater horrors.
- The streets of the resort were clotted with cars and smothered in the smell of fried food and sun tan lotion.
- Though prawns are low in calories, they are then smothered in a dressing loaded with them.
to make something stop burning► put out to make a fire stop burning, or make a cigarette, pipe etc stop burning: put out something: · It took firefighters four hours to put out the blaze.· I put out my cigarette and went back into the house.put something out: · She threw sand on the fire to put it out. ► extinguish formal to make a fire stop burning, or make a cigarette stop burning - used especially in official notices or statements: · Would all passengers please extinguish their cigarettes? Thank you.· He managed to extinguish the flames with his coat. ► blow out to make a flame or fire stop burning by blowing on it: blow out something: · You have to blow out all the candles or your wish won't come true.blow something out: · We tried to light a fire but the wind kept blowing it out. ► smother to cover a fire with something in order to stop it burning: · I grabbed a blanket and tried to smother the flames. ► stub out to stop a cigarette from burning by pushing it against something hard: stub out something: · She stubbed out her cigarette on the edge of the table.stub something out: · Don't stub your cigarette out on the floor! to stop a fire from burning► put out to make a fire stop burning: put out the fire/blaze/flames: · It took firefighters four hours to put out the blaze.put something out: · She threw sand on the fire to put it out. ► extinguish formal to stop a fire burning: · He managed to extinguish the flames with his coat.· It took several hours to extinguish the blaze. ► blow out to make a flame or fire stop burning by blowing on it: blow out a candle/match/fire etc: · He blew out the candle and went to sleep.blow something out: · We tried to light a fire but the wind kept blowing it out. ► smother to cover a fire with something in order to stop it from burning: · If the victim's clothes are burning, use a blanket to smother the flames. ► smother the flames (=put something over them to make them stop burning)· Barry smothered the flames with a blanket. NOUN► flame· Office worker Bryan Johnson tore off his own shirt to smother the flames.· Police officers also tried to smother the flames with their jackets as Mr Griffiths lay next to his car.· Office worker Bryan Johnson managed to knock Mr Chittenden to the floor, tearing off his own shirt to smother the flames. ► kiss· She laughed and screamed until I had to smother her mouth with kisses.· In bed at last, believing and disbelieving, she turned her face delightedly into the pillows, smothering her certainty of kisses. VERB► try· In the pew opposite Willie were two ginger-haired girls trying to smother their giggles.· Alison says the poltergeist has tried to smother her boyfriend in their terraced house.· She whipped these out to try and smother the blaze, her eyes smarting with the smoke. ► smother somebody with kisses- She laughed and screamed until I had to smother her mouth with kisses.
1to completely cover the whole surface of something with something else, often in a way that seems unnecessary or unpleasantsmother something with/in something noodles smothered in garlic sauce2to kill someone by putting something over their face to stop them breathing → suffocate: A teenage mother was accused of smothering her 3-month-old daughter.3to stop yourself from showing your feelings or from doing an action SYN stifle: The girls tried to smother their giggles.4to give someone so much love and attention that they feel as if they are not free and become unhappy: I don’t want him to feel smothered.5smother somebody with kisses to kiss someone a lot6to make a fire stop burning by preventing air from reaching it: We used a wet towel to smother the fire.7to get rid of anyone who opposes you – used to show disapproval: They ruthlessly smother all opposition. |