asphyxiated
- past participle of asphyxiate.
- past tense form of asphyxiate.
Example Sentences
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It’s a fitting way to conclude an experience that’s like being slowly asphyxiated by puffy clouds of baby powder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
When Lake Nyos erupted in 1986, it asphyxiated nearly 2,000 people and wiped out four villages in Cameroon.
From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024
For decades, many experts thought they asphyxiated amid the massive clouds of ash belched from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023
Last year, after 51 migrants died asphyxiated in a truck outside of El Paso, I argued in this website that that increased forced displacement in a context of restrictive migration regimes will cost innumerable lives.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2023
Gloria had a grip about the robot’s neck that would have asphyxiated any creature but one of metal, and was prattling nonsense in half-hysterical frenzy.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
