Old English Dictionary Entry

A-smorian

Related words: trans. To smother, choke, strangle, suffocate

Definitions

1 definitions

1 a-smorian

p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od; suffocare :-- Asmoraþ ðæt word suffocat verbum, Mt. Rush. Stthey smothered and stifled him on his bed, Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 105, 5. Ðæt ge ne blód ne þicgen, ne asmored [MS. H. asmorod] that ye taste not blood, nor [what is] strangled, L. Alf. 49; Th. i. 56, 26. a-smorian

Similar Words

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Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛋᛗᚩᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.: Latin

Works & Authors

Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Ors.: Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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