▪ I. asphyxy
(æsˈfɪksɪ)
[ad. F. asphyxie, ad. L. asphyxia.]
= asphyxia.
| 1784 (title) Gardane's Catechism concerning the apparent Deaths, called Asphyxies [transl. from Fr.]. 1837 Beddoes Let. in Poems Introd. 103 About to awake from her asphyxy of a hundred years. 1882 G. Macdonald Weighed & Want. II. xv. 192 His letters..absorbed her atmosphere, and after each followed a period of mental asphyxy. |
▪ II. asˈphyxy, v.
[f. prec. Cf. Fr. asphyxier.]
To asphyxiate. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
| 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 96 If said soul be asphyxied. 1881 Tyndall Float. Matt. Air App. 334 Asphyxied by the defect of oxygen. |