Türkisch - Englisch
Definition von zapto im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch
- smother
- Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like
- To daub or smear
- The act of smothering a kick (see above)
- The state of being stifled; suppression
- {v} to suffocate, suppress
- a stifling cloud of smoke conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires" deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake
- To jump in front of the player with the ball just before (or as) he kicks it, so that the ball is not forwarded
- Stifling smoke; thick dust
- That which smothers or appears to smother, in any sense
- a stifling cloud of smoke conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kickers boot, dribbling away
- form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake
- Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder
- To hit a ball with a closed clubface
- Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure