Definitions for asphyxiating
Overview of verb asphyxiate
The verb asphyxiate has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
(deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor")
2. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
(impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")
3. suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
(be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow")
Overview of adj asphyxiating
The adj asphyxiating has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. asphyxiating
(tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses")
