| VERB | contact | asphyxiate, smother, suffocate | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing |
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| contact | asphyxiate, suffocate, stifle, choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | |
| change | asphyxiate, suffocate, stifle | be asphyxiated |
| Sounds | aesfih'ksiyey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to asphyxiate the prisoners | |
| Synonyms | smother, suffocate | |
| Entails | cover | Provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Similar to | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | Be asphyxiated |
| Spanish | asfixiar, sofocar | |
| Catalan | asfixiar | |
| Nouns | asphyxia | a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis |
| asphyxiation | killing by depriving of oxygen | |
| asphyxiation | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | |
| Meaning | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | suffocate, stifle, choke | |
| Broader | obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up | Block passage through |
| Spanish | asfixiar, estrangular, reprimir, sofocar | |
| Catalan | asfixiar, estrangular, reprimir, sufocar | |
| Nouns | asphyxia | a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis |
| asphyxiation | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | |
| Meaning | Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | suffocate, stifle | |
| Narrower | strangle | die from strangulation |
| Broader | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| Similar to | smother, asphyxiate, suffocate | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing |
| Spanish | ahogarse, asfixiarse, asfixiar, atragantarse, reprimir, sofocarse | |
| Catalan | asfixiar-se, asfixiar, ennuegar-se, ofegar-se, reprimir, sufocar-se | |
| Nouns | asphyxia | a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis |
| asphyxiation | killing by depriving of oxygen | |
| asphyxiation | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | |
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