Synonym: choke, smother, stifle, suffocate. Similar words: blasphemy, blasphemous, exasperate, deviate, satiate, alleviate, vitiate, mediate. Meaning: [əs'fɪksɪeɪt] 
v. 1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing 2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of 3. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.
v. 1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing 2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of 3. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. 
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1) Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train.
2) He was asphyxiated by the smoke.
3) The men trapped in the mine were asphyxiated by gas.
4) She had been raped and asphyxiated, police said.
5) Most obviously, low levels of oxygen asphyxiate fish.
6) The melancholy was as asphyxiating as the soundtrack offence with its cacophony of four-letter obscenities.
7) Further away, others that survived the explosion became asphyxiated by its fumes.
8) And I suppose we'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs.
9) Maybe she was hoping to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide fumes.
10) Thought I'd asphyxiate from the smell.
11) As its rivals steadily asphyxiate, Amazon is ringing up 50 percent growth in quarterly revenues,(http://sentencedict.com/asphyxiate.html) and could reach $50 billion in sales this year.
12) They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris.
13) Small children sometimes choke or asphyxiate while trying to swallow big tablets.
14) Carbon dioxide in pure form can asphyxiate because it is heavier than air.
15) The murder inquiry found that the children had been asphyxiated.
16) Sulphur hexafluoride itself is harmless except in a confined space[sentencedict.com], where it displaces oxygen and can asphyxiate people.
17) The city was buried under several meters of volcanic ash, many of the inhabitants being asphyxiated in their houses.
18) We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.
19) At the same time, they issued smoke, inflamer produce a great lot of smother, so in fires, majority people got gas poisoning and asphyxiate and died.
20) The blast could have roiled the seas enough to asphyxiate fish and may have even set the planet on fire.
21) One news article at the time warned that trains would "blight crops with their smoke, terrorize livestock ...and people could asphyxiate" if they traveled on them.
22) Cole had never seen such an assertive killer before, she repeatedly assailed the guards, and tried to asphyxiate her cell mate.
23) Any of various snakes, such as the python or boa, that tightly coil around and asphyxiate their prey.
24) Asphyxiate lasts 5 sec. There was a typo in the Blizzcon presentation. Asphyxiate is the same duration as Strangulate, which it replaces.
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