pop off vs asphyxiate

pop off and asphyxiate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pop off	No	No	Yes	No
asphyxiate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, asphyxiate is a hyponym of pop off; that is, asphyxiate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pop off:

pop off: 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 pop off include abort, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, starve, fall, succumb, yield.

pop off (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
leave quickly	deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
	impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of