Definition of "asphyxied" [asphyxied]

• Asphyxiated.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He that has a soul unasphyxied will never want a religion; he that has a soul asphyxied, reduced to a succedaneum for salt, will never find any religion, though you rose from the dead to preach him one."
• "Voice of Eternity, if thou be not a blasphemer and poor asphyxied mute, speaks with that tongue of thine!"
• "The awakened soul of man, all but the asphyxied soul of man, turns from it as from worse than death."