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Asphyxiate

//əsˈfɪksieɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To smother or suffocate someone. transitive

    "A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said."

  2. 2
    be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen wordnet
  3. 3
    To be smothered or suffocated. intransitive
  4. 4
    impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of wordnet
  5. 5
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing wordnet

Etymology

From asphyxia + -ate.

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