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asphyxiating   (TTS Sound)



Overview of verb asphyxiate

The verb asphyxiate has 3 senses


  • smother, asphyxiate, suffocate -- (deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor")

  • suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke -- (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")

  • suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate -- (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow")


Overview of adj asphyxiating

The adj asphyxiating has 1 sense


  • asphyxiating -- (tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses")