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kick the bucket vs asphyxiate

asphyxiate vs kick the bucket

kick the bucket and asphyxiate both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
kick the bucket No No Yes No
asphyxiate No No Yes No
As verbs, asphyxiate is a hyponym of kick the bucket; that is, asphyxiate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kick the bucket:
  • kick the bucket: 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 kick the bucket include abort, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, starve, fall, succumb, yield.
kick the bucket (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 kick the bucket and asphyxiate

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