Definition of "asphyxiating" []

• Present participle of asphyxiate. (verb)

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• "We face a unipolar world and the gigantic hegemonism of our neighbors, who have always sought to destroy this Revolution and now feel more emboldened by the idea of asphyxiating it, giving it the final blow, because their minds cannot tolerate the existence of the Revolution and what it has meant for this hemisphere, in their backyard, which today they seek more than ever to secure."
• "The so-called asphyxiating gases produced their effect by producing lesions and congestion in the pulmonary system, causing death by suffocation."
• "When the tip is tugged, a piston mechanism ejects the cyanide pellet into the animal's mouth, where the pellet becomes a deadly gas, asphyxiating the victim in less than two minutes."