noun
Meaning 1
Death due to lack of oxygen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
asphyxiation
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Pronunciation
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/æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
An acute lack of oxygen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
killing by depriving of oxygen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suffocation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: killing, kill, putting to death
Narrower terms: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
noun
Meaning 4
the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suffocation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hypoxia
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English asphyxia Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English asphyxiate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English asphyxiation From asphyxiate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: verstikking — death due to lack of oxygen
- Finnish: tukehtumiskuolema — death due to lack of oxygen
- French: asphyxie — death due to lack of oxygen
- German: Erstickung — death due to lack of oxygen
- Hungarian: fulladás — death due to lack of oxygen
- Hungarian: megfulladás — death due to lack of oxygen
- Māori: whakahēmanawatanga — death due to lack of oxygen
- Slovene: zadušitev — death due to lack of oxygen
- Spanish: asfixia — death due to lack of oxygen
- Finnish: tukehtuminen — an acute lack of oxygen
- German: Sauerstoffmangel — an acute lack of oxygen
- Hungarian: fuldoklás — an acute lack of oxygen
- Irish: plúchadh — an acute lack of oxygen
- Norwegian: oksygenmangel — an acute lack of oxygen
- Spanish: asfixia — an acute lack of oxygen
- Swedish: kvävning — an acute lack of oxygen