Usually means: Deprivation of oxygen, causing asphyxia.
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  1. suffocation: Merriam-Webster
  2. suffocation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suffocation: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. suffocation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. suffocation: Wiktionary
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  9. suffocation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Suffocation (album), Suffocation (band), Suffocation (disambiguation), Suffocation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Suffocation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. suffocation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. Suffocation, suffocation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. suffocation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. suffocation: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. suffocation: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffocation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. suffocation: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suffocation)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.

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