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  • past participle In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of asphyxiate.

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  • adjective in a state of asphyxia

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Examples

  • They grew nearer, fully awakening me, and stopped, stifled in asphyxiated gags.

    This Side of Ultima Thule 1997

  • -- Palestinians will settle for a cantonized "prison state," according to Jeff Halper, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Israel will relax its military harshness and replace it with colonial exploitation masquerading as economic development; the process is well-advanced, Palestinian cities are ghettos, agricultural land is disappearing, Israel plunders the land, intends to exploit an expendable cheap labor pool, and the Territories are being "asphyxiated;" and/or

    Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion" 2008

  • So, no flower names, no tree names, no gemstones, no names of musicians who asphyxiated on their own vomit, no intellectual ideals as middle names—

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death.

    Alan Grayson: Did They Die in Vain? Alan Grayson 2011

  • So, no flower names, no tree names, no gemstones, no names of musicians who asphyxiated on their own vomit, no intellectual ideals as middle names—

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death.

    Alan Grayson: Did They Die in Vain? Alan Grayson 2011

  • In one, "a student was nearly asphyxiated while being restrained," and in the other, a student vomited from panic attacks after spending most of an academic year "confined to a closet, with no ventilation or outside source of light," according to the letter.

    Christopher Baker, 4th Grade Boy, Allegedly Stuffed Into Duffel Bag By School Employees 2011

  • Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death.

    Alan Grayson: Did They Die in Vain? Alan Grayson 2011

  • The young woman — who was killed in Van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day after Holloway disappeared — was bludgeoned and asphyxiated, according to the coroner's report.

    Lawyer: Van der Sloot to plead temporary insanity 2011

  • Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death.

    Alan Grayson: Did They Die in Vain? Alan Grayson 2011

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  • in reference to hash browns, see smothered

    September 22, 2009