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Definition of asphyxiate verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

asphyxiate

verb

NAmE//əˈsfɪksiˌeɪt//

asphyxiate somebodyVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they asphyxiate

he / she / it asphyxiates

past simple asphyxiated

-ing form asphyxiating

to make someone become unconscious or die by preventing them from breathing synonym suffocate He was asphyxiated by the smoke. asphyxiating gases

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asphyxiation

NAmE//əˌsfɪksiˈeɪʃn//

noun [uncountable] The cause of death was asphyxiation.See asphyxiate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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