give-up the ghost vs asphyxiate

give-up the ghost and asphyxiate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
give-up the ghost	No	No	Yes	No
asphyxiate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, asphyxiate is a hyponym of give-up the ghost; that is, asphyxiate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than give-up the ghost:

give-up the ghost: 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 give-up the ghost include abort, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, starve, fall, succumb, yield.

give-up the ghost (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

give-up the ghost vs asphyxiate

give-up the ghost and asphyxiate both are verbs.

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