ASPHYXIATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Asphyxiate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/æsfˈɪksiˌeɪt/ Listen

Asphyxiate

verb

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"

Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate.

Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. Synonyms: stifle, suffocate.

See images of 'Asphyxiate'

Etymology of 'Asphyxiate'

Share |

"Asphyxiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... returned the Senator furiously, "to asphyxiate my family to make it comfortable for you!" and the ...

— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan

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