transcription, транскрипция: [ æsfɪksieɪt ]
( asphyxiates, asphyxiating, asphyxiated)
If someone is asphyxiated , they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week’s train...
= suffocate
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
• as‧phyxia‧tion
A post mortem examination found that she died from asphyxiation.
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