|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Verb asphyxiate has 3 senses
- smother, asphyxiate, suffocate - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
--1 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:
They want to asphyxiate the prisoners
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
--2 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
--3 is one way to die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
|