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asphyxia
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a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
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asphyxiate
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smother: 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" suffocate: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" suffocate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
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asphyxiation
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suffocation: the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture" suffocation: killing by depriving of oxygen
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aspirate
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remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds a consonant pronounced with aspiration suck in (air)
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aspiration
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a will to succeed ambition: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath inhalation: the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
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