A-smorian

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

a-smorian

p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od; suffocare :-- Asmoraþ ðæt word suffocat verbum, Mt. Rush. Stv. 13, 22. Hí hine on his bedde asmoredan and aþrysemodan they 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

Parole correlate: trans. To smother, choke, strangle, suffocate;