asphyxiate

Verb
  1. Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing (synset 201572009)
    "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
    entail: cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered
    is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
    same as: smother, suffocate
    verb group: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
  2. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of (synset 201478810)
    "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
    is a type of: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude - block passage through
    same as: choke, stifle, suffocate
  3. Be asphyxiated;
    Die from lack of oxygen (synset 200360165)
    "The child suffocated under the pillow"
    is a type of: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    subtypes: strangle - die from strangulation
    same as: stifle, suffocate
    verb group: asphyxiate, smother, suffocate - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing

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