What is "asphyxiated"

Usage examples of "asphyxiated".

That rosy color, which has been observed in those asphyxiated by oxide of carbon, decided it.

A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.

I suddenly determined that the child and Joseph Cradock the farmer, and that unnamed Stratfordshire man, all found at night, all asphyxiated, had been choked by vast swarms of moths.

I got to the assumption or conclusion, whichever you like, that certain people had been asphyxiated by the action of moths.

After a couple days the glass is all steamed up and the roach has asphyxiated messlessly and Orin discards both the roach and the tumbler in separate sealed Ziplocs in the dumpster complex by the golf course up the street.