English words for 'Alternative form of positional asphyxia.'
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noun
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
noun
- The action of aspirating.
- (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
- (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.
- (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
- (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
- a will to succeed
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
- a cherished desire
noun
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
- (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
- the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
- killing by depriving of oxygen
noun
- Alternative form of astigmatism.
- (optics) Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
- (pathology) State of having stigmata
- (medicine) Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state
- (proscribed) Alternative form of stigma.
- (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point
- normal eyesight
- the condition of having or being marked by stigmata
verb
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
noun
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
verb
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- (transitive, figurative) To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
- (transitive) To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- (transitive) To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- (transitive) To prevent (light) from passing through.
verb
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
- (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- reduce the air supply
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
noun
- The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
- a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
noun
- a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration
- A person or thing that resuscitates.
- (medicine) A device, usually consisting of a face mask and tank, used to restore normal breathing to a person by forcing oxygen or an oxygen-rich mixture of gases into their lungs.
verb
adj
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
verb
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
adj
noun
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
noun
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
noun
- The action of aspirating.
- (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
- (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.
- (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
- (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
- a will to succeed
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
- a cherished desire
noun
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
- (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
- the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
- killing by depriving of oxygen
noun
- Alternative form of astigmatism.
- (optics) Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
- (pathology) State of having stigmata
- (medicine) Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state
- (proscribed) Alternative form of stigma.
- (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point
- normal eyesight
- the condition of having or being marked by stigmata
noun
- a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration
- A person or thing that resuscitates.
- (medicine) A device, usually consisting of a face mask and tank, used to restore normal breathing to a person by forcing oxygen or an oxygen-rich mixture of gases into their lungs.
verb
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
noun
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
verb
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- (transitive, figurative) To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
- (transitive) To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- (transitive) To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- (transitive) To prevent (light) from passing through.
verb
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
- (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- reduce the air supply
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
noun
- The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
- a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
verb
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- kill by submerging in water
- get rid of as if by submerging
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
adj
noun
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration