adj.

held in check with difficulty

"a smothered cough"

同義詞：stifledstrangledsuppressed

completely covered

"bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"

smOTHERed VOICES in The A2 News
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Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault?
Smothered pulsars and the central radio sources in M81, M82, and the Galaxy
Smothered by Invention: Technology in Women's Lives by Wendy Faulkner; Erik Arnold
The impact of scour processes on a smothered reef system in the Irish Sea
Growth and development of mangrove forests overlying smothered coral reefs, Sulawesi and Sumatra, Indonesia
A few days before the end of the 2008 extreme outburst of EX Lup : accretion shocks and a smothered stellar corona unveiled by XMM-N...