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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
asphyxiate .
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Examples
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Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, "his three-jug car, he called it, because he'd traded three jugs of liquor for it."
Moonshine Gumshoe 2010
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If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, "his three-jug car, he called it, because he'd traded three jugs of liquor for it."
Moonshine Gumshoe 2010
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If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In Elizabeth Bear's "The Something-Dreaming Game," a ten-year-old girl with a quantum chip in her brain communicates with an alien when she auto-asphyxiates.
REVIEW: Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2008
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It is a soul-rooted yearning that the U.S. bury its failed Neoconservative policies before its necrotic odor asphyxiates us all.
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For them, Islam is to be preserved, a preservation that asphyxiates free thought.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Synopsis: A ten-year-old girl with a quantum chip in her brain communicates with an alien when she auto-asphyxiates.
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It is a soul-rooted yearning that the U.S. bury its failed Neoconservative policies before its necrotic odor asphyxiates us all.
OpEdNews - Diary: A New Year's Prediction for the Middle East 2009
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