smothered lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• held in check with difficulty "a smothered cough" "a stifled yawn" "a strangled scream" "suppressed laughter"
• completely covered "bonnets smothered with flowers" "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"
• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained" "quench the flames" "snuff out the candles"
• conceal or hide "smother a yawn" "muffle one's anger" "strangle a yawn"
• envelop completely "smother the meat in gravy"
• deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion "smother fires"
• 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"
• form an impenetrable cover over "the butter cream smothered the cake"
• a stifling cloud of smoke
• a confused multitude of things