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buy the farm vs asphyxiate

asphyxiate vs buy the farm

buy the farm and asphyxiate both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
buy the farm No No Yes No
asphyxiate No No Yes No
As verbs, asphyxiate is a hyponym of buy the farm; that is, asphyxiate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than buy the farm:
  • buy the farm: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • asphyxiate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
Other hyponyms of buy the farm include abort, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, starve, fall, succumb, yield.
buy the farm (verb) asphyxiate (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Difference between buy the farm and asphyxiate

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