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Asphyxiate

verb

Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing. Synonyms: smother, suffocate. "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate.

Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen. Synonyms: stifle, suffocate.

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