asphyxiate
vt. 使窒息
vi. 窒息
If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train...
在上週的火車撞車事故中有3人窒息死亡。
John Doe died in his bath, asphyxiated by the fumes from a gas water-heater.
一名男子死於浴室中,死因是吸入燃氣熱水器中排出的氣體導致窒息。
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
3. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen;
We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.
在我們被這些有毒氣體窒息之前,必須查出其來源.