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asphyxiate

English

  1. 🔊 deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
    “Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow”
  2. 🔊 be asphyxiated
    “The child suffocated under the pillow”
  3. 🔊 impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
    “The foul air was slowly suffocating the children”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 asfixiar to asphyxiate, suffocate

Similar words

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