asphyxiate
verb (used with object)
to produce asphyxia in.
asphyxiates
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present tense formof asphyxiate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Told that methylene chloride asphyxiates people at high enough levels, he said he didn’t want to talk about it.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2015
Their action takes place against cityscapes so steeped in shadowy, gas-lit mystique the reader practically asphyxiates.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2012
Stanley Greenfield, however, cynically argues that the revolt against the car may not take place until a thermal inversion, combined with a traffic jam out of Godard's Weekend, asphyxiates thousands on a freeway to nowhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be frank with Polk as to how much he asphyxiates me?
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
Ninety-nine out of every hundred people who visit picture galleries need to be delivered from that "museum atmosphere" which envelops works of art and asphyxiates beholders.
From Art by Clive Bell
