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asphyxiate Definition

as·phyxi·ate (-sē āt′)

transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing

  1. to cause asphyxia in
  2. to suffocate

intransitive verb

to undergo asphyxia

asphyxiate Related Forms
as·phyx′ia·tion noun as·phyxia′·tor noun
asphyxiate Usage Examples

Object

  • gas: Rumor that this evening the enemy will attack our lines using an asphyxiating gas to overcome our men in the trenches.
  • infant: The first part was to analyze stimulus rate-dependent changes in the BER of normal infants to form the controls for asphyxiated infants.
  • neonate: At higher click rates, wave amplitudes reduced more in the asphyxiated neonates than in the controls.

Subject

  • fume: Welles's transmission breaks off as a reporter drops his microphone and collapses, asphyxiated by lethal fumes.

Preposition: by

  • fume: Welles's transmission breaks off as a reporter drops his microphone and collapses, asphyxiated by lethal fumes.

Modifying Another Word

  • slowly: They cut its grant by half, and slowly asphyxiated the Weimar institute to death through money withdrawal.
  • severely: Picture by Merlin Massara Jack was severely asphyxiated during the last 19 minutes of his birth at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
  • gradually: Snaring has not been studied in detail but can cause very poor welfare, in part because the animals gradually asphyxiate themselves.

Adjective complement

  • due: In essence, the fingers and anywhere else affected were being strangled or asphyxiated due to lack of blood!

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