To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To form a kink or twist.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
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
To cook in a close dish.
To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
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.
To be suffocated.
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.
To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
To daub or smear.
Cookware used in such cooking.
Smoldering; slow combustion.
The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).