verb Download 🔗Share To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone. Examples : "The heavy blanket smothered me in my sleep, making it hard to breathe. " physiology body medicine action condition sensation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air. Examples : "to smother a fire with ashes" action process nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To be suffocated. Examples : "The firefighter pulled the person from the burning building before they were smothered by the thick smoke. " physiology body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To get in the way of a kick of the ball. Examples : "The defender smothered the attacker's kick, preventing the ball from going towards the goal. " sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The defender smothered the forward's shot by quickly getting his hands over the ball right after it left her foot, stopping it from going to the goal. " sport action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
