Asphyxiate

Definition: Asphyxiate

Asphyxiate

Verb

1. 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".

2. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children".

Domain	Definition
Mining	To suffocate; to choke. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Asphyxiate

Synonyms: choke (v), smother (v), suffocate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Killing	Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Syria	Former prisoners and detainees report that torture methods include administering electrical shocks; pulling out fingernails; forcing objects into the rectum; beating, sometimes while the victim is suspended from the ceiling; hyperextending the spine; and using a chair that bends backwards to asphyxiate the victim or fracture the victim's spine. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Asphyxiate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Asphyxiate" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "asphyxiate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		asfiksoj, mbyt (assail, blanket, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck). (various references)

Arabic		‏خنق (choke, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏إختنق (choke, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate). (various references)

Bulgarian		задушавам (braise, choke, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stew, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), причиняващ задушаване, причинявам асфикция. (various references)

Chinese		�'息 (Asphyxiated, asphyxiating, Asphyxiation, smother, smothered, smothering, suffocate, Suffocated, suffocating). (various references)

Czech		zadusit (smother), udusit se (suffocate). (various references)

Farsi		مختنق کردن , خفه کردن (Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), خناق پیداکردن . (various references)

Finnish		tukahduttaa (keep back, repress, smother, stifle, suffocate). (various references)

French		asphyxier. (various references)

German		ersticken (be suffocated, become choked, choke, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, quell, smother, snuff, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle). (various references)

Greek		προκαλώ ασφυξία (smother), πνίγω διά ασφυξίασ. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ח� יק (choke, smother, stifle, strangle). (various references)

Hungarian		megfullaszt (smother, suffocate, to asphyxiate), megfojt (strangle, suffocate, throttle, to asphyxiate, to choke, to garotte, to garrotte, to scrag, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to suffocate, to throttle). (various references)

Italian		asfissiare (suffocate). (various references)

Pig Latin		asphyxiateay

Portuguese		asfixiar (burke, choke, smother, stifle, suffocate). (various references)

Romanian		asfixia (choke, smother, suffocate), sufoca (choke, smother, stifle, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Russian		удушать (suffocate), вызывать удушье. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zagušljivac, zagušiti (block, suffocate), ugušiti (burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Spanish		asfixiar (suffocate). (various references)

Swedish		kväva (choke, damp, dampen, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Turkish		oksijensiz bırakmak, boğmak (Burke, choke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother, smother with, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm). (various references)

Ukrainian		викликати асфіксію, задихатися (choke, gasp, pant, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), душити (champ, choke, smother, stifle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Welsh		tagu (choke, stifle, strangle), mygu (smoke, smother, stifle, suffocate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asphyxiate": asphyxiated, asphyxiates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asphyxiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asphixiate, asphxiate, asphyxiant, asphyxiote. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "asphyxiate" (pronounced 'As*phyx"i*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-p-s-t-x-y"
	-2 letters: apathies, asphyxia.
	-3 letters: ataxies, epitaxy, hapaxes.
	-4 letters: apathy, axites, expats, pastie, petsai, pietas, pyxies, saithe, spathe, taxies.
	-5 letters: aphis, apish, ataps, ataxy, axite, ayahs, ephas, exist, exits, expat, haets, hapax, haste, hasty, hates, heaps, heats, heist, hypes, paisa, paise, pasha, pasta, paste, pasty, pates, paths, patsy, paxes, peats, peaty, pesty, phase, pieta, piety, piste.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-i-p-s-t-x-y"
	+1 letter: asphyxiated, asphyxiates.
	+4 letters: hypercatalexis.
	+5 letters: hydroxyapatites.
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