asphyxiate as a verb: - 1
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asphyxiate
verb
1 asphyxiate
2 asphyxiate
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate.
Roget 361:
kill,
put to death,
slay,
shed blood;
murder,
assassinate,
butcher,
slaughter,
victimize,
immolate;
massacre;
take away life,
deprive of life;
make away with,
put an end to;
despatch,
dispatch;
burke,
settle,
do for.
strangle,
garrote,
hang,
throttle,
choke,
stifle,
suffocate,
stop the breath,
smother,
asphyxiate,
drown.
saber;
cut down,
cut to pieces,
cut the throat;
jugulate†;
stab,
run through the body,
bayonet,
eviscerate;
put to the sword,
put to the edge of the sword.
shoot dead;
blow one's brains out;
brain,
knock on the head;
stone,
lapidate†;
give a deathblow;
deal a deathblow;
give a quietus,
give a coupe de grace.
behead,
bowstring,
electrocute,
gas
etc.
(execute)
972.
hunt,
shoot
etc.
n..
cut off,
nip in the bud,
launch into eternity,
send to one's last account,
sign one's death warrant,
strike the death knell of.
give no quarter,
pour out blood like water;
decimate;
run amuck;
wade knee deep in blood,
imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death,
welter in one's blood;
dash out one's brains,
blow out one's brains;
commit suicide;
kill oneself,
make away with oneself,
put an end to oneself,
put an end to it all.
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3 asphyxiate
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.
synonyms: stifle, suffocate.
Dutch: verstikken, stikken
Moby thesaurus: OD, be killed, bottle up, burke, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, drown, extinguish, famish, gag, garrote, hold down, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, muzzle, pour water on, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle ... show more.
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