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Asphyxiation

noun
1.
The condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped).  Synonym: suffocation.
2.
Killing by depriving of oxygen.  Synonym: suffocation.





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... conditions to which the children of the poor are exposed, would be the laughing-stock even of the bucolic mind. Parliament has already done something in this direction, by declining to be an accomplice in the asphyxiation of school children. It refuses to make any grant to a school in which the cubical contents of the school-room are inadequate to allow of proper respiration. I should like to see it make another step in the same direction, and either refuse to give a grant to a school in ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley
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Words linked to "Asphyxiation" :   kill, strangling, strangulation, asphyxiate, hypoxia, choking, throttling, killing, putting to death


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