SMOTHERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smothered mean? 

• SMOTHERED (adjective)
  The adjective SMOTHERED has 2 senses:

1. held in check with difficulty

2. completely covered

  Familiarity information: SMOTHERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOTHERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held in check with difficulty

Synonyms:

smothered; stifled; strangled; suppressed

Context example:

suppressed laughter

Similar:

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Completely covered

Context example:

smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

And overhead—yes, in the room just above my chamber-ceiling—I now heard a struggle: a deadly one it seemed from the noise; and a half-smothered voice shouted—"Help! help! help!" three times rapidly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he did so he started back, and I could hear his ejaculation, "Mein Gott!" as it was smothered in his throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Of my darling being almost smothered among the flowers, and coming out, laughing and crying both together, to my jealous arms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck simply smothered him by virtue of superior weight, and cut him up till he ceased snapping and began to whine for mercy.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the men were no longer eager as they pulled and hauled, and I heard curses amongst them, which left their lips smothered and as heavy and lifeless as were they.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The iron fire-basket was carried bodily out by Mr. Trelawney, and the embers smothered among sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Symptoms experienced during a panic attack include dyspnea or sensations of being smothered; dizziness, loss of balance or faintness; choking sensations; palpitations or accelerated heart rate; shakiness; sweating; nausea or other form of abdominal distress; depersonalization or derealization; paresthesias; hot flashes or chills; chest discomfort or pain; fear of dying and fear of not being in control of oneself or going crazy.

(Panic Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half-smothered child.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)