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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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Words linked to "Asphyxiate" :   exit, impede, strangle, cash in one's chips, drop dead, asphyxiation, block, decease, pass away, jam, obturate, kill, smother, pop off, obstruct, close up, snuff it, stifle, croak, conk, choke, asphyxia, go, die, perish, expire, pass, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, occlude, cover, kick the bucket



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