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Definition of asphyxiate verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

asphyxiate

 verb
verb
NAmE//əˈsfɪksiˌeɪt//
 
asphyxiate somebodyVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they asphyxiate
 
he / she / it asphyxiates
 
past simple asphyxiated
 
-ing form asphyxiating
 
 
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to make someone become unconscious or die by preventing them from breathing synonym suffocate He was asphyxiated by the smoke. asphyxiating gases
asphyxiation
 
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NAmE//əˌsfɪksiˈeɪʃn//
 
noun [uncountable] The cause of death was asphyxiation.See asphyxiate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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