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What does suffocation mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
  2. (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
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We went up a flight of stairs crammed to suffocation by people eagerly waiting for the hall doors to open.
But Ibsen himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life.
Like a man in a diving bell whose air supply has been cut off, my mind leapt between bouts of panic and thoughts of suffocation.
But I still have that feeling of suffocation, that my lungs are clawing at the air for a breath.
The painting elicits the viewer's identification with her weariness and suffocation in an intimate way.
Infants who cannot yet lift their heads are especially at risk for suffocation and strangulation.

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