asphyxiate
asphyxiate
Definition
as·phyxi·ate (-sē āt′)
transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing
- to cause asphyxia in
- to suffocate
intransitive verb
to undergo asphyxia
as·phyx′ia′·tion noun
as·phyx′ia′·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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