Englisch-Dänisch Übersetzung für smother

  • kvæleRecessionen kvæler virksomhederne, og klimaændringerne bliver stadig større. The recession is smothering businesses and climate change grows ever more stark. EU's omfavnelse af den globale kapitalisme er en omfavnelse, som vil kvæle os alle. The European Union's embrace of global capitalism is an embrace that will smother us all. Det er heller ikke første gang, der klages over teknikken med puden, der skal kvæle de udvistes råb. It is not the first time that the technique of using a pillow to smother the cries of those being expelled has been condemned.

Definition für 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''

Anwendungsbeispiele

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

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