suffocation
noun C2- 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. · A child left unattended may die of suffocation.
- A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia. · The coroner reported three suffocations last week.
Plural suffocations
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“As for me, so nervous, and so subject to fainting fits, I should require a Doctor Adelmonte to invent for me some means of breathing freely and tranquillizing my mind, in the fear I have of dying some fine day of suffocation.
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