engelska-holländska översättning av smother

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Alle inspanningen die zijn verricht om deze motie in de kiem te smoren betekenen zonder meer dat aan alle eventuele twijfel of de motie wel gerechtvaardigd was een einde is gekomen. Any lingering doubts about whether the motion was justified have surely been removed by the attempts to smother it. Die verklaring onderstreept de urgentie en het belang van wat zich op Oost-Timor afspeelt, waar tot op dit moment milities trachten het streven naar onafhankelijkheid in bloed te smoren. It underlined the urgency and importance of what is happening in East Timor, where militias continue their endeavours to smother the struggle for independence in blood. Is het echt zo’n loze bewering dat vele voorstanders de toetreding van Turkije willen gebruiken om het idee van de stichters van de federale staat Europa definitief in de kiem te smoren? Are there really so few grounds for suspecting that some of its advocates want to use Turkish accession to finally smother the founding fathers’ conception of a European federal state?
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To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone
To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
In cookery: to cook in a close dish
To daub or smear
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like
to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed
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 kicker's boot, dribbling away
That which smothers or appears to smother, ''particularly''

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