asphyxiation

asphyxiation has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.
• n.. killing by depriving of oxygen
• n.. the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture"