English words for 'Causing or relating to asphyxiation.'
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- 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.
- 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)
- (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
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- 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.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- 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.
- 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.
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- 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
- (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.
- 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
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- A toxic chemical compound and banned weapon of mass destruction which, when inhaled or ingested, impairs nervous system functions, typically causing extreme physical distress and death by asphyxiation.
- a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- (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
- 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
- the causal agent resulting in death
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- cause the death of, without intention
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
- Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
- Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
- (transitive) To cause the death of.
- (transitive) To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
- (transitive) To transport away.
- (transitive) To win (a prize, etc.).
- (transitive) To steal or kidnap
- be successful; achieve a goal
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- kill in large numbers
- The state of being susceptible to death.
- (figuratively) Death.
- Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- the quality or state of being mortal
- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
- (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
- of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison
- (figurative) Severely negative or harmful.
- (figurative) Of a person, hateful or strongly antipathetic.
- (medicine) Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- (toxicology, pharmacology) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- (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 suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (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
- (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)
- 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
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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)
- (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
- 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
- A toxic chemical compound and banned weapon of mass destruction which, when inhaled or ingested, impairs nervous system functions, typically causing extreme physical distress and death by asphyxiation.
- a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system
- the causal agent resulting in death
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
- Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
- Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
- The state of being susceptible to death.
- (figuratively) Death.
- Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- the quality or state of being mortal
- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
- 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.
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- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- 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.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- 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.
- 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.
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- 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
- (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 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
- 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
- cause the death of, without intention
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- (transitive) To cause the death of.
- (transitive) To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
- (transitive) To transport away.
- (transitive) To win (a prize, etc.).
- (transitive) To steal or kidnap
- be successful; achieve a goal
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- kill in large numbers
- (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
- (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 suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (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
- (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)
- 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
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- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison
- (figurative) Severely negative or harmful.
- (figurative) Of a person, hateful or strongly antipathetic.
- (medicine) Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- (toxicology, pharmacology) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.