asphyxiate

t. [Mod. Lat. asphyxia, and suff. -ate.] To prevent the arterialisation of the blood; to suffocate. (Generally, if not exclusively, in the past participle.) as-phyx-i-ā-těd, pa. par. [ASPHYXIATE.] "She died like one asphyxiated ."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat ., i. 305. tạs-phyx'-ied, pa. par. [ASPHYXY, v.] "Like higher organisms, the bacterial genus are poisoned by the exce and asphyxied by the defect of oxygen."- Prof . Tyndall , quoted in Times , 24th May, 1877.