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asphyxiate

DEFINITIONS OF: asphyxiate

1

v deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

Synonyms:
smother, suffocate
stifle, suffocate
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
Type of:
kill
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly

v impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

Synonyms:
choke, stifle, suffocate
Type of:
block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
block passage through

v be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen

Synonyms:
stifle, suffocate
smother, suffocate
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Types:
strangle
die from strangulation
Type of:
buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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