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asphyxiate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | stifle, suffocate |
| Type of | perish, pass away, give-up the ghost, go, snuff it, kick the bucket, pop off, pass, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire |
| Has types | strangle |
| Verb group | smother, suffocate |
| Derivation | asphyxia, asphyxiation |
Examples of asphyxiate
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The individual may choke and asphyxiate or suffer an aspiration pneumonia.
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Both of them soon asphyxiate due to the carbon dioxide emitted by the fermenting grapes.
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Methane, an asphyxiate, is a chemical compound that is the main component of natural gas.
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These species are obligate ram ventilators and would presumably asphyxiate if unable to move.
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The viral online campaign featured a man trying to asphyxiate himself from his car's exhaust.
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If they don't plug the leak quickly though, they will asphyxiate.
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Modern mammalian carnivores usually asphyxiate their prey.
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Petroleum jelly applied thickly to the hair could asphyxiate the insects, but it is very hard to wash out.
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In heavy concentrations above ground it can displace air and so asphyxiate people, animals and plants.
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- Smother: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- Suffocate: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- Suffocate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- (asphyxiated) in a state of asphyxia
- (asphyxiating) tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses"
- (asphyxiation) suffocation: the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture"
- To smother or suffocate someone; To be smothered or suffocated
- (asphyxiation) Death due to lack of oxygen; An acute lack of oxygen
- (Asphyxiation) An acute upper airway obstruction is a blockage of the upper airway, which can be in the trachea, voice box (laryngeal), or throat (pharyngeal) areas; killing by depriving of oxygen
