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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb asphyxiate has 3 senses

• asphyxiate(v = verb.contact) smother, 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"
is one way to kill
Derived forms noun asphyxia₁, noun asphyxiation₂, noun asphyxiation₁
Sample sentence:
They want to asphyxiate the prisoners

• asphyxiate(v = verb.contact) choke, stifle, suffocate - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
is one way to block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
Derived forms noun asphyxia₁, noun asphyxiation₁
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• asphyxiate(v = verb.change) stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
is one way to 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
Derived forms noun asphyxia₁, noun asphyxiation₂, noun asphyxiation₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

CIDE DICTIONARY

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

asphyxiate

OD, be killed, bottle up, burke, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, drown, extinguish, famish, gag, garrote, hold down, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, muzzle, pour water on, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle

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asphyxiate

Killing

VB kill, put to death, slay, shed blood, murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate, massacre, take away life, deprive of life, make away with, put an end to, despatch, dispatch, burke, settle, do for, strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown, saber, cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat, jugulate, stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate, put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword, shoot dead, blow one's brains out, brain, knock on the head, stone, lapidate, give a deathblow, deal a deathblow, give a quietus, give a coupe de grace, behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas, hunt, shoot, cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of, give no quarter, pour out blood like water, decimate, run amuck, wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, die a violent death, welter in one's blood, dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains, commit suicide, kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

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