ASPHYXIATED Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

asphyxiated

verb

past tense of asphyxiate

as in strangled

to cause (someone) to stop breathing and often to become unconscious and die The murder victim was asphyxiated.

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Recent Examples of asphyxiated According to the Nevada County Coroner’s Office, all nine people who died asphyxiated. — Tribune News Service, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 Adam gets off on being asphyxiated, while Ingeborg has hypersensitive fingertips to the extent of them effectively being her erogenous zone; gracing her hands against the fabric that’s wrapped her lover during his orgasm seems to set off her own. — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Mexican authorities found Erbach’s body alongside a road outside the city two days later, and determined he had been asphyxiated. — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026 The petition, which was granted by a federal judge, cited reports alleging that guards at the facility choked and asphyxiated Campos. — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 10 June 2026 The 10-mile-high plume asphyxiated around 200,000 residents but also preserved the city in remarkable detail. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026 The fine ash preserved the site but asphyxiated 200,000 residents. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026 Tarrant County prosecutors said Busby and an accomplice abducted Crane, 77, from a grocery store parking lot, robbed her and then asphyxiated her with duct tape, wrapping 14 layers around her face. — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 20 May 2026 Like being asphyxiated in a ball pit filled with candy, the experience of watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is at once kaleidoscopic and nerve-wracking. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026

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Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then, while he was gone, strangled the children with exercise bands.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Over the course of the trial, Clancy’s attorney, the redoubtable Kevin Reddington, repeatedly acknowledged that his client strangled her children in the basement of her home on January 24, 2023, while her then husband was out running errands.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026

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