asphyxiate

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verb

To stop the breathing of: choke, smother, stifle, suffocate. See breath/breathlessness.

v

Definition: cut off air
Antonyms: breathe, loosen

IN BRIEF: The process of preventing a person from breathing.

Shirley's new perfume was enough to asphyxiate her friends.

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To suffocate; to deprive of oxygen for utilization by the tissues.

For a list of words related to asphyxiation, see:

• Signs and Symptoms - asphyxiation: suffocation; failure of oxygen to reach tissues due to respiratory obstruction
• Unnatural Deaths - asphyxiation: death by lack of oxygen or from breathing obstruction; smothering; suffocation

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See words rhyming with "asphyxiate."

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - fremkalde asfyksi hos, kvæle
v. intr. - kvæles, få asfyksi

Nederlands (Dutch)
doen stikken, verstikken

Français (French)
v. tr. - asphyxier
v. intr. - s'asphyxier

Deutsch (German)
v. - ersticken

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ασφυκτιώ, πνίγω/-ομαι, θανατώνω με ασφυξία

Italiano (Italian)
asfissiare, soffocare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - asfixiar, sufocar

Русский (Russian)
задыхаться, душить, утонуть, испытывать асфиксию

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - ahogar, sofocar
v. intr. - ahogarse, asfixiarse

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - kväva

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使窒息, 窒息

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使窒息
v. intr. - 窒息

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 을 질식 시키다
v. intr. - 질식 상태가 되다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 窒息させる, 窒息する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يخنق, يختنق من قله الأكسجين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חנק‬
v. intr. - ‮נחנק‬

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