smother

Significado (inglés)

1. To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
2. To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
3. To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
4. To cook in a close dish.
5. To daub or smear.
6. To be suffocated.
7. To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
8. to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
9. to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
10. To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
11. 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. To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.

suffocate

stifle

mare’s nest

grow over

force back

extingiushment

fire suppression

mound over

fire extinction

fire-extinguishing

choke down

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsmʌðɚ/

From Middle English smothren, smortheren, alteration (due to smother, smorther (“a suffocating vapour, dense smoke”, noun)) of Middle English smoren (“to smother”), from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”), from Proto-Germanic *smurōną (“to suffocate, strangle”), probably related to *smallijan (“to burn”) or Old English smoca (“smoke”). Cognate with Middle Low German smoren, smurten (“to choke, suffocate”), West Flemish smoren (“to smoke, reek”), Dutch smoren (“to suffocate, smother", also "to stew, simmer”), German schmoren (“to stew, simmer, braise”).