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asphyxiateas‧phyx‧i‧ate /æsˈfɪksieɪt, əs-/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formal VERB TABLEasphyxiate |
Present | I, you, we, they | asphyxiate | | he, she, it | asphyxiates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | asphyxiated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have asphyxiated | | he, she, it | has asphyxiated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had asphyxiated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will asphyxiate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have asphyxiated |
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Present | I | am asphyxiating | | he, she, it | is asphyxiating | | you, we, they | are asphyxiating | Past | I, he, she, it | was asphyxiating | | you, we, they | were asphyxiating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been asphyxiating | | he, she, it | has been asphyxiating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been asphyxiating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be asphyxiating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been asphyxiating |
- And I suppose we'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs.
- Maybe she was hoping to asphyxiate him with carbon monoxide fumes.
- Sulphur hexafluoride itself is harmless except in a confined space, where it displaces oxygen and can asphyxiate people.
to prevent someone from breathing normally, usually so that they die, or stop breathing SYN suffocate—asphyxiation /æsˌfɪksiˈeɪʃən, əs-/ noun [uncountable] |