smother

/ˈsmʌðər/

意味: 窒息、覆うこと

例文: June: “Don’t smother the cake in cream!”
　　  ジューン：「ケーキをクリームで覆いすぎないで！」

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: smother a fire(火を消す), smother with love(愛で包む), smother in sauce(ソースで覆う)

定義: 何かを完全に覆って空気を遮断すること、または誰かを過度に愛情や注意で包むことを指します。火を消すために酸素を遮断する方法としても使われます。

smotherは約1,000,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a confused multitude of things
Noun: a stifling cloud of smoke
Verb: envelop completely
Verb: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Verb: conceal or hide
Verb: form an impenetrable cover over
Verb: deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She tried to smother the small fire quickly.(彼女は小さな火をすぐに消そうとした。)
His mother would smother him with hugs.(彼の母親は抱きしめて彼を包み込んだ。)
The thick fog seemed to smother the entire town.(濃い霧が町全体を覆っているようだった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: smother the meat in gravy
Verb: Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow
Verb: The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor
Verb: smother a yawn
Verb: muffle one’s anger
Verb: strangle a yawn
Verb: the butter cream smothered the cake
Verb: smother fires

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): asphyxiate, clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare’s nest, muddle, muffle, put out, repress, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, surround, welter

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): cover, disorderliness, kill, smoke, snuff out, suppress

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): aluminize, assassinate, bank, bark, bedaub, bind, blacklead, blanket, blindfold, blinker, bloody, board up, brain, bread, brush, burke, butcher, butter, canopy, canvas, carpet, choke off, clapboard, cloak, clothe, clutter, coat, coif, commit suicide, concrete, cowl, crape, crown, daub, decapitate, decimate, destroy, dismember, disorganization, dispatch, drape, draw, drown, dust, electrocute, eliminate, envelop, erase, execute, exterminate, face, feather, felt, flake, flash, flood, foil, frost, glaciate, grass, gravel, grease, gun smoke, hold, hood, hush, impale, jacket, lag, laminate, lime, line, lynch, mantle, martyr, mask, massacre, mess, mist, mound over, mulch, murder, neutralize, oil, overlie, paint, pall, paper, parcel, paste, plank, plaster, poison, put away, put on, recover, roof, saber, sacrifice, shambles, sheathe, shed blood, sheet, shoot, shroud, silence, smother, sod, spray, spread, spritz, squelch, stamp, steel, stifle, stone, strangle, straw, strew, submerge, take off, tile, tomahawk, turf, untidiness, veneer, wallpaper, wash, wax, whiteout, wink, wrap, zap

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): rummage

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: asphyxia, asphyxiation, clutter, jumble, muddle, smotherer, stifler, stifling, suffocation

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書):

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, negative