Definition of "asphyxiates" [asphyxiates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asphyxiate. (verb)

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• "Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, "his three-jug car, he called it, because he'd traded three jugs of liquor for it.""
• "In Elizabeth Bear's "The Something-Dreaming Game," a ten-year-old girl with a quantum chip in her brain communicates with an alien when she auto-asphyxiates."
• "If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess."