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smother的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈsmʌðə]
KK音标发音： [ˈsmʌðɚ]

smother的词性：
v.（动词）

smother的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

1. To suffocate (another).
使窒息：闷死（某人）

2. To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
闷熄：（给火焰）去掉必需的氧气，使其不能燃烧

3. To conceal, suppress, or hide:
隐藏，压迫或躲藏：

Management smothered the true facts of the case. We smothered our indignation and pressed onward.
管理层隐瞒了这件事的真相。我们暂时压下怒气，继续前进

4. To cover (a foodstuff) thickly with another foodstuff:
厚厚地覆盖：将（一种食物）厚厚地盖在另一食物上：

smother chicken in sauce.
用佐料厚厚地涂在鸡肉上

5. To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone):
溺爱：过多地（对某人）投入某种感情：

The grandparents smothered the child with affection.
祖父母们溺爱这孩子

smother的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

6. To suffocate.
窒息，闷死

7. To be extinguished.
熄灭

8. To be concealed or suppressed.
被隐藏或被压迫

9. To be surfeited with an emotion.
溺爱：过多地投入感情

smother的词性：
n.（名词）

10. Something, such as a dense cloud of smoke or dust, that smothers or tends to smother.
使人窒息的东西：令人窒息或具有使人窒息倾向的东西，例如浓烟或沙土

smother的词源：

11. Middle English smotheren
中古英语 smotheren

12. from smorther [dense smoke] * see smolder
源自 smorther [浓烟] *参见 smolder