English-Swedish translations for smother

  • kvävaEU:s omfamnande av global kapitalism är en omfamning som kommer att kväva oss alla.The European Union's embrace of global capitalism is an embrace that will smother us all. Eventuella kvardröjande tvivel om huruvida förslaget var berättigat har säkerligen undanröjts av försöken att kväva det.Any lingering doubts about whether the motion was justified have surely been removed by the attempts to smother it. Det är inte heller första gången man anmäler sättet att med en kudde kväva de utvisades skrik.It is not the first time that the technique of using a pillow to smother the cries of those being expelled has been condemned.
  • tyna
  • dämpa
    Kan någon dämpa radion lite?Dämpa er lite nu barn och håll inte på att skrika och springa runt så mycket.
  • kvävas
  • utsläcka

Definition of smother

  • To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone
  • To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
  • In cookery: to cook in a close dish
  • To daub or smear
  • To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like
  • to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed
  • 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
  • That which smothers or appears to smother, ''particularly''

Examples

  • to smother a fire with ashes
  • The committees report was smothered
  • beefsteak smothered with onions

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