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Meaning:
Noun:
- aussie-rules The act of smothering a kick (see above).
- That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense.
- The state of being stifled; suppression.
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Verb:
- aussie-rules 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.
- intransitive Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- intransitive Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- intransitive To be suffocated.
- intransitive To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- transitive In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
- transitive To daub or smear.
- transitive To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
- transitive To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered.
- transitive To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
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