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Asphyxiation

noun
1.
The condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped).  Synonym: suffocation.
2.
Killing by depriving of oxygen.  Synonym: suffocation.






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"Asphyxiation" Quotes from Famous Books



... should attempt to make, or keep up, a fine stock of pigs, or sheep, under the conditions to which the children of the poor are exposed, would be the laughing-stock even of the bucolic mind. Parliament has already done something in this direction, by declining to be an accomplice in the asphyxiation of school children. It refuses to make any grant to a school in which the cubical contents of the school-room are inadequate to allow of proper respiration. I should like to see it make another step in the same direction, and either refuse to give a grant to a school ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... for I'm a last year's champ; Into the old bone orchard am I blowing, So with the late lamented let me camp, My walkers to the graveyard daisies toeing, And shaking this too upish generation, Pass checks through cigarette asphyxiation. ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin



Words linked to "Asphyxiation" :   hypoxia, asphyxiate, killing, kill, suffocation, choking, throttling, putting to death, strangling, strangulation



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