1. vt. 使窒息，使透不过气 stop air from reaching a person or thing
2. vt. 覆盖 cover thickly or completely
3. vt. 忍住，抑制 keep back,suppress (one's anger,etc.)
4. vt. 闷住，闷熄 put out (a fire), cause (a fire) to burn slowly,by covering it with ashes,sand,etc.

1. a confused multitude of things

2. a stifling cloud of smoke

1. envelop completely;

   "smother the meat in gravy"
   

2. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;

   "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"
   "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
   

3. conceal or hide;

   "smother a yawn"
   "muffle one's anger"
   "strangle a yawn"
   

4. form an impenetrable cover over;

   "the butter cream smothered the cake"
   

5. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion;

   "smother fires"
   

1.将(火)闷熄
If yousmother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.

e.g. The girl's parents were also burned as they tried tosmother the flames.
女孩的父母试图扑灭大火的时候也被烧伤了。

2.使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死
Tosmother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.

e.g. A father was secretly filmed as he tried tosmother his six-week-old son in hospital.
一位父亲在医院里企图捂死自己 6 周大的儿子的情景被秘密地拍了下来。

3.盖满;完全覆盖
Things thatsmother something cover it completely.

smother

e.g. Once the shrubs begin tosmother the little plants, we have to move them.
一旦灌木丛开始遮住这些小苗，我们就得把它们移走。

4.宠爱;溺爱
If yousmother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.

e.g. She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.
她十分疼爱自己的孩子，几乎到了溺爱的程度。
e.g. ...a smothering, overprotective mother.
对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲

5.压抑，控制(感情或反应)
If yousmother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.

e.g. She summoned up all her pity for him, tosmother her self-pity.
她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。
e.g. ...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑

6.压制，钳制，扼杀，镇压 (某种活动或过程)
If an activity or processis smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.

e.g. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
在被占领期间法国思想界受到了压制。
e.g. The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning tosmother the reform process.
波兰和匈牙利的债务正开始扼杀改革的进程。

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2. 使窒息：smooth-bore 滑膛武器 |smother 使窒息 |smothering action 窒息作用

3. smother的反义词

3. 浓烟：smoothness 平滑度 |smother 浓烟 |smother 窒息