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to asphyxiate
01
to die as a result of being unable to breathe, due to a lack of air or oxygen
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
asphyxiate
3rd person singular
asphyxiates
Present participle
asphyxiating
Past simple
asphyxiated
Past participle
asphyxiated
Examples
The victim asphyxiated after being trapped in the sealed room.
02
to cause someone to stop breathing by depriving them of oxygen
Transitive: to asphyxiate sb
Examples
The closed room threatened to asphyxiate everyone inside.
Lexical Tree
asphyxiated
asphyxiating
asphyxiation
asphyxiate
asphyxi
