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asphyxiate

 
Verb asphyxiate has 3 senses
  1. smother, asphyxiate, suffocate - 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"
    --1 is one way to kill
    Derived forms: noun asphyxiation1, noun asphyxia1, noun asphyxiation2
    Sample sentence:
    They want to asphyxiate the prisoners
  2. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
    --2 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
    Derived forms: noun asphyxiation1, noun asphyxia1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
    --3 is one way to die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
    Derived forms: noun asphyxiation1, noun asphyxiation2, noun asphyxia1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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