Thesaurus / asphyxiate
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In his mind, he says, play constant images of Khashoggi, who evidence indicates was slowly asphyxiated by a team of agents and dismembered with a bone saw.
A NEW MOVIE ABOUT JAMAL KHASHOGGI REVEALS A PROTÉGÉ WHO IS ALIVE AND UNDER ASSAULTSTEVEN ZEITCHIKJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Pino, my old gardener, thinks this is a bad idea—that it will soot up in no time, asphyxiating the vertebrates below who just want to sit near the fire and read a book.
THE GLOBAL RALLY STALLS OUT, BUT GOLDMAN SACHS IS DOUBLING DOWN ON VALUE STOCKSBERNHARD WARNERDECEMBER 7, 2020FORTUNE
It is not only that such women do nothing themselves—they slowly asphyxiate their friends, their brothers, or their husbands.
THREE ADDRESSES TO GIRLS AT SCHOOLJAMES MAURICE WILSON
A tablespoonful poured on a cow-chip and rolled down a dog hole will asphyxiate the entire family.
BAT WING BOWLESDANE COOLIDGE
Compression of the vagus nerve may slow the child's pulse and asphyxiate it through lack of oxygen in the blood.
THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL HOMICIDE AND MUTILATIONAUSTIN O'MALLEY
When version has been done haste may compress the head in the tight cervix and asphyxiate the child.
THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL HOMICIDE AND MUTILATIONAUSTIN O'MALLEY
It might precipitate, into the air, gases which would asphyxiate us or cause a general conflagration.
ASTRONOMY OF TO-DAYCECIL G. DOLMAGE
It would be difficult to asphyxiate any one in the open air without leaving any mark of strangulation.
THE PLACE OF DRAGONSWILLIAM LE QUEUX
Its fumes, being heavier than air, penetrate the burrows and promptly poison or asphyxiate all living animals and fleas.
PLAGUETHOMAS WRIGHT JACKSON
Men would lie down on the warm cinders, and while they slumbered, the poisonous gases would asphyxiate them.
BROKEEDWIN A. BROWN
WORDS RELATED TO ASPHYXIATE
- X-out
- annihilate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- crucify
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- drown
- dump
- electrocute
- eradicate
- erase
- execute
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- garrote
- get
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- immolate
- liquidate
- lynch
- massacre
- murder
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- poison
- polish off
- put away
- put to death
- rub out
- sacrifice
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- strangle
- suffocate
- waste
- wipe out
- zap
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.