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Significados de smothered em inglês

Held in check with difficulty.

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Examples for "suppressed"
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Legitimate political activities and speech by American citizens are not being suppressed.
War by other means: an insider's account of the war on terror
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In other areas unemployment and high supply are keeping the market suppressed.
The Irish Times
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Not that debate on this issue should be suppressed, quite the contrary.
The Irish Times
4
The Mississippi infant's virus, however, remained suppressed for 27 months without treatment.
Ebony
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Moreover, it effectively suppressed tumor growth in mice without major side effects.
Pubmed
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The conflict in his mind again began; anger and failure stifled him.
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Magee College's development has been stifled by institutional opposition and political neglect.
The Irish Times
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Until recently, I was feeling stifled by the tyranny of the new.
Wired
4
Timid yet violent, he stammered; the words were stifled in his throat.
The Red Lily — Volume 02
5
The need of money stifled the best that was in my nature.
In Friendship's Guise
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The good intentions of the social worker strangled by local authority bureaucracies.
The Guardian
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Four of the victims were shot and the fifth strangled, Caldwell said.
Reuters
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Ten years ago she could have strangled Bedelia Morse with one hand.
Mine
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According to Moreira, Fernandes was present when Santos strangled the former model.
The Guardian
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Geraldine Diver was strangled in her car in Dublin nine years ago.
The Irish Times
Uso de smothered em inglês
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The answer was slow and smothered; and, of course, in the negative.
The Red Rover: A Tale
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Plain dresses simply do not exist; everything is smothered with elaborate decoration.
The Irish Times
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Gradually it brightened and a smothered sob found place in the roses.
The Shield of Silence
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At times, she seemed smothered by the number of her charges, too.
Knife of dreams
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I stopped, my dim spark of curiosity smothered by my common sense.
The Name of the Wind
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She heard their snarls, and beneath, the smothered whimpers of their victims.
Sister of the dead
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Everything is smothered in the litter that is fated to accompany it.
A Pluralistic Universe / Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College ...
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But after we went to the farm I was smothered in ease.
The Gay Cockade
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In the tower, partially smothered by the storm, vibrated a shrill cry.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
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There is always a smothered hatred of the uniform and the flag.
Report on the Condition of the South
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And there was a rim all smothered in diamonds and blue stones.
The Port of Adventure
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The house lay silent, half smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
Birthright: A Novel
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But resolutely she smothered the sparks and bolstered up the pitiful lie.
Parrot & Co.
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No one else could have-But he smothered the wail in kisses.
Graustark
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That watchfullest showing no alarm, the absurdity of the suspicion smothered it.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
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But his voice was smothered by the shouts of the advancing multitude.
Joshua — Volume 1
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