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What does asphyxiate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word asphyxiate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
  2. (intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.
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This includes nearly 900 people who choke to death, 2,500 who asphyxiate from a blocked airway and 29,000 who die from heart attacks.
It bears all the hallmarks of an attempt by the government to asphyxiate the media group in an act of political revenge.
It would be difficult to asphyxiate any one in the open air without leaving any mark of strangulation.
I half-expect to asphyxiate, because with so many gasping at once, one would think all the oxygen would leave the air.
To clear epidermis of dead cells, which asphyxiate the skin and make it look dull, the first step is the exfoliation.
Steam rose from all directions, billowing into swirls, each a threatening tentacle ready to choke, suffocate, asphyxiate me.

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