smother

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.

   “He smothered her by pressing his hand over her mouth.”

2. fiil To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.

   “to smother a fire with ashes”

3. fiil To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

   “The committee's report was smothered.”

4. fiil To cook in a close dish.

   “beefsteak smothered with onions”

5. fiil To daub or smear.

   “And I keep quite a lot of it around, especially chocolate-covered almonds and Trader Joes minipretzels smothered in dark chocolate.”

6. fiil To be suffocated.

   “She is smothered by the rope.”

7. fiil To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
8. fiil to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
9. fiil to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
10. fiil To get in the way of a kick of the ball.

    “Emmanuel Adebayor's touch proved a fraction heavy as he guided Van der Vaart's exquisite long ball round John Ruddy, before the goalkeeper did well to smother Bale's shot from Modric's weighted pass.”

11. fiil 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.
12. fiil To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
13. isim Smoldering; slow combustion.
14. isim Cookware used in such cooking.

    “Thus must I from the smoke into the smother […]”

15. isim The state of being stifled; suppression.

    “not to keep their suspicions in smother”

16. isim Stifling smoke; thick dust.

    “Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, / From tyrant duke unto tyrant brother.”

17. isim The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).