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• v  deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
• v  impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
• v  be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
• s  tending to deprive of oxygen
  asphyxiating gasses

• That's "removal" in the Tony Soprano sense, with henchmen capturing and asphyxiating the birds.
• It is placing aviation and asphyxiating gas foremost in its equipment; it is developing these destructive agents not only for a struggle against enfeebled Japan, but also .
• A fire had broken out in the cargo hold of the jet, an ancient DC-9 en route to Atlanta from Miami, filling the cabin with smoke and probably asphyxiating the 110 passengers and .

• smother
• asphyxiate
• suffocate
• stifle
• choke

News & Articles

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• Rookie contracts still haunt Lions
  The Detroit Lions have made it two-thirds of the way through treating a rare but asphyxiating condition: They were the NFL's worst team when the rookie pay scale was most crippling to the teams with high first-round draft choices. After finishing 3-13 in 2006, the Lions used the No. 2 overall pick in 2007 and drafted receiver Calvin Johnson. By rule, Johnson received a six-year rookie contract ...
  July 10, 2013 - ESPN Blogs
• PADRES’ 1-9 TRIP IS OVER
  Over the grueling ordeal of these past 10 days, what with all the blast-furnace heat, asphyxiating humidity and the loss after loss after loss, San Diego and Petco Park seemed as far away as the last time the Padres were over .500.
  July 8, 2013 - U-T San Diego

Quotes

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• Manuel Zelaya in BBC News
  Interim authorities were employing a strategy of "asphyxiating the embassy by surrounding it, cutting off the food supply, asphyxiating the people inside in order to demonstrate their force and power", Mr Zelaya told Venezuela's Telesur TV...
• Alfredo Palacio in Bloomberg
  External debt is totally asphyxiating our country but that doesn't mean that the obligations don't need to be honored,Palacio, whose presidential term ends in January, told investors gathered today at the Council of the Americas, a...