[
UK
/ɐsfˈɪksɪˌeɪt/
]
[ US /æsˈfɪksiˌeɪt/ ]
[ US /æsˈfɪksiˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor
Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow -
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
The child suffocated under the pillow -
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
How To Use asphyxiate In A Sentence
- It appears that some of these had rotted and produced a lethal gas which asphyxiated the crew members.
- We all know someone who's very closeness can almost asphyxiate us right?
- Steve was a good friend I lost last year; he asphyxiated and/or drowned at Soda Springs up in Napa.
- The kids and I enjoyed having her company, apart from the fact that she just about asphyxiated us all each morning with the amount of hair spray she was using.
- Interestingly enough, both writers are suicides - Hemingway shot himself and Plath asphyxiated in a gas oven.
- I think if there were any more people I would have asphyxiated.
- They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris.
- A chalupa is a hard corn shell appropriately shaped like a trough, into which ground beef bits are placed and then asphyxiated in a thick layer of melted Monterey Jack cheese.
- Her children's allergy to the sun means they must live in near darkness: anything stronger than candlelight will cause the kids to break out in boils and then asphyxiate.
- Infants and small children can become wedged in gaps and asphyxiate.
