Associations to the word «Asphyxiate»

Wiktionary

ASPHYXIATE, verb. (transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
ASPHYXIATE, verb. (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.

Dictionary definition

ASPHYXIATE, verb. 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".
ASPHYXIATE, verb. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children".
ASPHYXIATE, verb. Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King