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▸ verb:  (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
▸ verb:  (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
▸ verb:  (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Suffocated; choked.

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