Synonyms for asphyxiating

Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb asphyxiate

Sense 1:

smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
kill

Sense 3:

suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

Sense 2:

suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up

Similarity of adj asphyxiating

1 sense of asphyxiating

Sense 1:

asphyxiating
breathless (vs. breathing), dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal