suffocation
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5.2
- noun
- /ˌsʌfəˈkeɪʃən/
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asfixia
- Sure, can we get out of here, though, before I die of suffocation?
- accidental suffocation
- die of suffocation
- death by suffocation
Otherwise your child will die through suffocation within a day.
- Otherwise your child will die through suffocation within a day.
- They they use poison, they use gas, they use suffocation.
- And pain, pleasure, people do that now, BDSM and all that whipping and slapping and suffocation.
- Why do you have the right to allow a child to die of malaria, but you don't have the right to allow a child to die from suffocation from drowning?
- He claimed that the timing of those searches for foolproof suffocation occurred were done by George, the father, as a means of suicide.
Examples
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Each year, manufacturers recall hundreds of children's products because they pose a serious danger of suffocation, choking, strangulation, or entrapment.
Academic text (1999) -
The child was found unresponsive due to suffocation inside the closed car.
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Otherwise your child will die through suffocation within a day.
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I mean, people dying of suffocation anyway.
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Apparently the boy died of suffocation shortly after.
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If we don't act fast, it means suffocation or cardiac arrest.
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Which is what has been said by those on the verge of dying from suffocation.
Academic text (2007) -
In all likelihood, says Trimble, the children were buried alive and perished of suffocation.
Academic text (2009) -
He struggled to breathe and realized he was in a state of suffocation from the smoke.
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The blanket was so heavy that it caused her to experience suffocation while sleeping.
Synonyms
25
9.6
Not enough oxygen in the body that makes you lose consciousness or die
9
7.9
Not enough oxygen reaches parts of the body, for example the brain
8
8.6
A condition in which a person cannot breathe and becomes unconscious from lack of oxygen
5
3.2
Being unable to breathe because something blocks your throat
4
9.3
Complete lack of oxygen in the body that can quickly damage the brain
Antonyms
How Breathless
- Specialized
25
9.6
20
5.2
5
3.2
2
4.6
- Specialized
22
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suffocation comes from the Latin verb suffocare, which meant 'to choke' or 'stop breathing', and the small part sub- meant 'under', so you can imagine something pressing down and stopping the breath. That's why suffocation today means being unable to breathe because the air is blocked.