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asphyxiate

verb
/əsˈfɪksieɪt/

Etymology

From asphyxia + -ate.

  1. derived from ἀσφυξία
  2. learned borrowing from asphyxia
  3. formed as asphyxiate — “asphyxia + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To smother or suffocate someone.

    • A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.

  2. To be smothered or suffocated.

The neighborhood

Derived

asphyxiator, autoasphyxiate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at asphyxiate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01asphyxiate02smother03fire04smouldering05smoulder06choke07constrict

A definitional loop anchored at asphyxiate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at asphyxiate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA