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Asphyxiate   /æsfˈɪksiˌeɪt/   Listen
Asphyxiate

verb
1.
Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing.  Synonyms: smother, suffocate.  "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
2.
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.  Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate.
3.
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.  Synonyms: stifle, suffocate.






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"Asphyxiate" Quotes from Famous Books



... ill; and, upon my soul, I don't wonder. It was enough to asphyxiate a whale-factory hand. But the male genet was not ill, or, if he was, he was moving from place to place too quickly to give the fact away; and by the time he shot up a tree, like a long, rippling, cream and tawny-dappled, banded line, he left that polecat considerably redder than ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars



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