Smothered

Definition: Smothered

Smothered

Adjective

1. Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter".

2. Completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy".

Date "smothered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Smothered

Synonyms: stifled (adj), strangled (adj), suppressed (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Smothered

English words defined with "smothered": asphyxiate ♦ Corokia ♦ Gathering coal, genus Corokia ♦ smother, stifled, strangled, suffocate, suppressed. (references)

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Modern Usage: Smothered

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He killed her, then he blew off her head, smothered it in onions. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)
Lyrics	I want you smothered want you covered like my Waffle House hashbrowns (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang) I'm talkin down how smothered in gravy, Cool J be, (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)
Movie/TV Titles	His Smothered Love (1918)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Smothered

Domain	Title
Books	Smothered by Invention: Technology in Women's Lives (reference) Smothered Under Journalism, 1946 (Complete Orwell, Vol. 18) (reference) Smothered Words (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Smothered (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Scattered, Smothered & Covered (reference) Smothered (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Smothered

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Through the diseased perceptions of an incomplete nature and a smothered intelligence, he vaguely felt that a monstrous weight was over him.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	[To RICHARD] Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	A mound of children smothered the pot from sight.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Smothered

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Inflation, which had soared to a 77.6% annual rate in 1998, has been smothered. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Smothered

"Smothered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 45.89% of the time. "Smothered" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	45.89%	67	40,952
Lexical Verb (past participle)	42.47%	62	42,755
Adjective (general or positive)	10.27%	15	90,616
Noun (proper)	1.37%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	146	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Smothered

Expression using "smothered": smothered mate. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "smothered": half-smothered.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smothered

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
smothered	40	smother smothered	4
smothered chicken	29	cabbage smothered	3
smothered pork chop	28	applebees chicken recipe smothered	3
chicken recipe smothered	20	sinclair smothered tori	3
chop pork recipe smothered	17	applebees chicken smothered	3
smothered steak	12	smothered spineshank	3
chess game smothered	11	pillow smothered	2
chess smothered tournament	10	lyrics smothered spineshank	2
recipe smothered steak	9	potato recipe smothered	2
bagged dom fem smother smothered smothering	9	andrew brittany smothered	2
potato smothered	6	porkchops smothered	2
smothered video	5
		porkchops smothered	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smothered

Language		Translations for "smothered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�'息 (Asphyxiate, Asphyxiated, asphyxiating, Asphyxiation, smother, smothering, suffocate, Suffocated, suffocating). (various references)

Czech		udušený. (various references)

Finnish		tukahtua (be smothered, be stifled). (various references)

French		couvé. (various references)

German		erstoch, erstickte (asphyxiated, stifled, suffocated). (various references)

Korean		질식시키�" (Choked, stifled). (various references)

Manx		plooght (stifled, stunk out), plooghit (chesty, choked, close, congested, frowsty, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, suppressed, teeming, thick, thick as voice). (various references)

Pig Latin		otheredsmay

Romanian		surd (deaf, dull, hidden, hollow, secret, sharp, unvoiced). (various references)

Russian		душить удушенный. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Smothered

Misspellings
	"Smothered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: smithered. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Smothered"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "smothered" (pronounced smu"therd)
3	-th er d	bothered, fathered, feathered, furthered, gathered, grandfathered, tethered, weathered, withered.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Smothered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: modester, mothered, theorems.
	-2 letters: dehorts, demotes, emerods, emoters, heteros, homered, meteors, methods, mothers, oersted, remotes, shorted, smother, stormed, teredos, theorem, thermes, thermos.
	-3 letters: dehort, demote, desert, deters, doters, emerod, emoted, emoter, emotes, erodes, ethers, heders, hereto, heroes, hetero, homers, hordes, horsed, horste, hosted, merdes, merest, meshed, meteor, meters, method, metred, metres, metros, modest.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: endotherms, resmoothed.
	+2 letters: atmosphered, homesteader, hydrometers.
	+3 letters: endothermies, headforemost, homesteaders, hydrometeors, thermostated.
	+4 letters: dermatophytes, dethronements, hemichordates, metamorphosed, mouthbreeders, thermostatted.
	+5 letters: hermaphrodites, hypermodernist, wordsmitheries.
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