| 单词 | smothering |
| 释义 | smothering (once / 4866 pages) adj WORD FAMILY smothering: smotheringly+/smother: smothered, smotherer, smothering, smothers USAGE EXAMPLESParis this month experienced its worst air-pollution episode in a decade, with a thick blanket of ugly air smothering the City of Light for days. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) By feeding on seaweeds and algal turfs, herbivorous fish prevent these organisms from smothering reefs. Salon(Dec 07, 2016) A medical examiner concluded the teenager died of asphyxia by smothering. Washington Times(Dec 06, 2016) adj causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat the smothering soft voices smothering heat Syn suffocating, suffocative breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty |
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