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asphyxiates

verb , present tense third-person singular of asphyxiate

Synonyms and Antonyms of asphyxiates

to cause (someone) to stop breathing and often to become unconscious and die

The murder victim was asphyxiated.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of asphyxiates

garrotes (or garottes), throttles

chokes, smothers, stifles, strangles, suffocates

croaks [slang], destroys, dispatches, does in, fells, slays

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of asphyxiates

breathes, exhales, expires, inhales, inspires

resuscitates, revives

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