Smothered
[smʌðəd]
Definition
(adj.) held in check with difficulty; 'a smothered cough'; 'a stifled yawn'; 'a strangled scream'; 'suppressed laughter' .
(adj.) completely covered; 'bonnets smothered with flowers'; 'smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Smother
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Examples
- Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now,' said another gentleman. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Tom stretched himself out on a box, and there, as he lay, he heard, ever and anon, a smothered sob or cry from the prostrate creature,--O! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is under my arm, said Miss Pross, in smothered tones, you shall not draw it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He spoke this in a smothered voice, and I did in truth believe that my last moments had arrived. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Truly I ought not to have been born; they should have smothered me at the first cry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I felt smothered like down below. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Jo smothered a laugh at the sudden change, and when someone gave a modest tap, opened the door with a grim aspect which was anything but hospitable. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I know I will be smothered if I stay in it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I mentioned to Mr. Smallweed, only an hour or so ago, that when I come into things of this kind I feel as if I was being smothered. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She would have thrown her arms about my neck and smothered me with caresses, had I not gently but firmly disengaged myself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A low moan close to her ear followed, and the rustling increased; she heard a smothered voice breathe out, Water, Water! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When you go winding round and round me, says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, damme, if I don't feel as if I was being smothered! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Shutting the door, he approached me, and said, in a smothered voice-- You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Her words were smothered in her throat, and her head drooped down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The girl moaned out some half intelligible reply, that she could not tell; and seemed, from the smothered noise that escaped her, to be crying. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is smothered ferocity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And he inflates his broad chest to its utmost extent as if to assure himself that he is not smothered yet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ah, yes, it is very well to see things in that business point of view, murmured Eustacia with a smothered fire of feeling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In the canons we almost smothered in the baking atmosphere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And was then turned over on its back in Bella's lap, and smothered with kisses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No sooner were her preparations made than they roused a smothered sense of resistance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said when he stabbed the t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the babbies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It has kept him in a state of smothered exasperation all the time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For with sparky soot, snuffs and vapours, men have constant strife,-- Those who are not burned to death are smothered during life. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I will _not_ commit it to your work-table to be smothered in piles of woollen hose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He hastened to undo it; and, with smothered voices and heavy tread, came several men, bringing a body, wrapped in a cloak, and lying on a shutter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Of my darling being almost smothered among the flowers, and coming out, laughing and crying both together, to my jealous arms. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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