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asphyxiates - definition and meaning
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verb asphyxiate .
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Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, "his three-jug car, he called it, because he'd traded three jugs of liquor for it."
Moonshine Gumshoe 2010
If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, "his three-jug car, he called it, because he'd traded three jugs of liquor for it."
Moonshine Gumshoe 2010
If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung, then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning—the pathology of excess.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
In Elizabeth Bear's "The Something-Dreaming Game," a ten-year-old girl with a quantum chip in her brain communicates with an alien when she auto-asphyxiates .
REVIEW: Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2008
It is a soul-rooted yearning that the U.S. bury its failed Neoconservative policies before its necrotic odor asphyxiates us all.
Printing: A New Year's Prediction for the Middle East 2009
For them, Islam is to be preserved, a preservation that asphyxiates free thought.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
Synopsis: A ten-year-old girl with a quantum chip in her brain communicates with an alien when she auto-asphyxiates .
REVIEW: Fast Forward 1 edited by Lou Anders 2007
It is a soul-rooted yearning that the U.S. bury its failed Neoconservative policies before its necrotic odor asphyxiates us all.
OpEdNews - Diary: A New Year's Prediction for the Middle East 2009
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