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Definition of Asphyxiate
1. Verb. Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing. "They want to asphyxiate the prisoners "; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
Related verbs: Stifle, Suffocate
Generic synonyms: Kill
Entails: Cover
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Asphyxiation, Suffocation
2. Verb. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
Generic synonyms: Block, Close Up, Impede, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Occlude
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Choking, Suffocation, Suffocative
3. Verb. Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. "The child suffocated under the pillow"
Generic synonyms: Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Decease, Die, Drop Dead, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Strangle
Related verbs: Smother, Suffocate
Derivative terms: Asphyxia, Asphyxiation, Asphyxiation, Suffocation, Suffocative
Definition of Asphyxiate
1. v. t. To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]
Definition of Asphyxiate
1. Verb. (transitive) To smother or suffocate someone. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asphyxiate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Asphyxiate
1. To induce asphyxia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asphyxiate
Literary usage of Asphyxiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"As early as April 6, German prisoners had reported that the Germans, were preparing
to asphyxiate their enemies by means of poisonous ..."
2. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard (1920)
"Should white men ever really lose their instinct of race-solidarity, they would
asphyxiate racially as swiftly and surely as they would asphyxiate ..."
3. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"be numb, asleep (of arm or leg). asphyxiate ... cause to suffocate, asphyxiate (as
by fumes, drowning, etc. ..."
4. Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson, Gustav Killian (1914)
"At the right is shown the manner in which the ordinary cannula of the shops
permits a patient to asphyxiate, though some air is heard passing through the ..."
5. Mental Maladies; a Treatise on Insanity by Etienne Esquirol, Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (1845)
"The pistol and poniard are also instruments which men employ. Women rarely have
recourse to these means. They hang, drown, asphyxiate themselves, ..."
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