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ASPHYXY

Definition: ASPHYXY

ASPHYXY

Noun

1. Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Translation: ASPHYXY

Language		Translations for "ASPHYXY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		asfiksi (asphyxia, suffocation). (various references)

Bulgarian		задушаване (asphyxia, stifling, stranglehold, strangulation, suffocation). (various references)

Hungarian		fulladás (asphyxia, asphyxiation, choking, drowning, smothering). (various references)

Pig Latin		asphyxyay

Portuguese		asfixia (apnea, asphyxia, choke, suffocation). (various references)

Russian		удушье (asphyxia, asthma, oppression, suffocation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zagušenje (asphyxia, asphyxiation). (various references)

Swedish		kvävning (asphyxia, choke, suffocation). (various references)

Vietnamese		trạng thái ngạt (asphyxia). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ASPHYXY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-p-s-x-y-y"
	-3 letters: ashy, haps, hasp, hays, hyps, pash, pays, pyas, shay, spay, syph, yaps, yays.
	-4 letters: ash, asp, ays, hap, has, hay, hyp, pah, pas, pax, pay, pya, pyx, sap, sax, say, sha, shy, spa, spy, yah, yap, yay.
	-5 letters: ah, as, ax, ay, ha, pa, sh, ya.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: ASPHYXY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 53 50 48 59 58 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- ... .--. .... -.--. -..- -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010011 01010000 01001000 01011001 01011000 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#80 &#72 &#89 &#88 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0050 0048 0059 0058 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35535042595859

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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