asphyxiation

1. 1.

   the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)

   “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”

   Synonymssuffocation

   Broaderhypoxia
2. 2.

   killing by depriving of oxygen

   Synonymssuffocation

   Broaderkilling

   Narrowerchoking

Other forms of asphyxiation

plural

asphyxiations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asphyxiation

What does asphyxiation mean?

asphyxiation means "the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asphyxiation?

asphyxiation has 6 syllables: a-sphyx-i-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for asphyxiation?

Close synonyms include suffocation, suffocation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asphyxiation a common word?

asphyxiation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.