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asphyxiate vs decease

decease vs asphyxiate

asphyxiate is not a noun while decease is a noun.

asphyxiate and decease both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
asphyxiate No No Yes No
decease Yes No Yes No
As verbs, decease is a hypernym of asphyxiate; that is, decease is a word with a broader meaning than asphyxiate:
  • asphyxiate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
  • decease: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Other hypernyms of asphyxiate include buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.
asphyxiate (noun) decease (noun)
the event of dying or departure from life
asphyxiate (verb) decease (verb)
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
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