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asphyxiate vs expire

expire vs asphyxiate

asphyxiate and expire both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
asphyxiate No No Yes No
expire No No Yes No
As verbs, expire is a hypernym of asphyxiate; that is, expire is a word with a broader meaning than asphyxiate:
  • asphyxiate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
  • expire: 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, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.
asphyxiate (verb) expire (verb)
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen expel air
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of lose validity
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