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verb (v)

• deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing(verb.contact)

  Synonym:
  smother, suffocate
  

  source: wordnet30
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of(verb.contact)

  Synonym:
  choke, stifle, suffocate
  

  source: wordnet30
• be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen(verb.change)

  Synonym:
  stifle, suffocate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.](verb)

  source: webster1913