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SMOTHERING A FIRE

Specialty Definition: SMOTHERING A FIRE

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Measures taken to diminish the air supply to a fire by preventing the mixing of inflammable vapours with oxygen, or covering a flaming object, e. g. with a blanket, or diluting the air by means of a heavier-than-air inert gas. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SMOTHERING A FIRE

Language Translations for "SMOTHERING A FIRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kvælning af ild. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

smoren (choke, quell, suffocate, suppress), doven van een vuur. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palon tukahduttaminen. (various references)

   

French

  

étouffement d'un feu. (various references)

   

German

  

ein Feuer ersticken. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατάπνιξη πυρκαγιάς. (various references)

   

Italian

  

soffocare il fuoco. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otheringsmay aay irefay

   

Portuguese

  

abafamento de um incêndio. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ahogar un fuego. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kvävning av eld. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SMOTHERING A FIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-g-h-i-i-m-n-o-r-r-s-t"

-3 letters: ferrimagnets, ferromagnets, remigrations.

-4 letters: airfreights, emigrations, ergotamines, featherings, ferrimagnet, ferromagnet, foregathers, freemartins, garnierites, gentrifiers, hatemongers, reforesting, remastering, remigration.

-5 letters: agrimonies, airfreight, amortising, antiheroes, antimerger, antireform, emigration, enormities, ergotamine, feathering, fermentors, ferretings, firethorns, fishmonger, forearming, foregather, foreigners, foreignism, forgathers, freemartin, freighters, fromenties, garnierite, generators, gentrifier, gentrifies, germinates, hatemonger, hermitages, hermitries, infighters, inheritors, ironmaster, magnifiers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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