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asphyxiation
Overview of noun asphyxiation
The noun asphyxiation has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. suffocation, asphyxiation -- (the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture")
2. suffocation, asphyxiation -- (killing by depriving of oxygen)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asphyxiation
2 senses of asphyxiation
Sense 1
suffocation, asphyxiation
=> hypoxia
=> drive
=> physiological state, physiological condition
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
suffocation, asphyxiation
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun asphyxiation
1 of 2 senses of asphyxiation
Sense 2
suffocation, asphyxiation
=> choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asphyxiation
2 senses of asphyxiation
Sense 1
suffocation, asphyxiation
=> hypoxia
Sense 2
suffocation, asphyxiation
=> killing, kill, putting to death
Antonyms of noun asphyxiation
Member Holonyms of noun asphyxiation
Substance Holonyms of noun asphyxiation
Part Holonyms of noun asphyxiation
Member Meronyms of noun asphyxiation
Substance Meronyms of noun asphyxiation
Part Meronyms of noun asphyxiation
Meronyms of noun asphyxiation
Holonyms of noun asphyxiation
Attributes of noun asphyxiation
Derived Forms of noun asphyxiation
2 senses of asphyxiation
Sense 1
suffocation, asphyxiation
RELATED TO>(verb) asphyxiate#2
=> suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
RELATED TO>(verb) asphyxiate#1
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
RELATED TO>(verb) asphyxiate#3
=> suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
Sense 2
suffocation, asphyxiation
RELATED TO>(verb) asphyxiate#3
=> suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
RELATED TO>(verb) asphyxiate#1
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
Domain of noun asphyxiation
Domain Terms of noun asphyxiation
Familiarity of noun asphyxiation
asphyxiation used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun asphyxiation
2 senses of asphyxiation
Sense 1
suffocation, asphyxiation
> hypoxia
=> anemic hypoxia
=> hypoxic hypoxia
=> ischemic hypoxia, stagnant hypoxia
=> altitude sickness
=> anoxia
=> suffocation, asphyxiation
Sense 2
suffocation, asphyxiation
> killing, kill, putting to death
=> deathblow, coup de grace
=> death
=> euthanasia, mercy killing
=> homicide
=> dispatch, despatch
=> fell
=> suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
=> slaughter
=> poisoning
=> suffocation, asphyxiation
=> sacrifice, ritual killing
=> electrocution
=> decapitation, beheading
=> genocide, race murder, racial extermination
Meronyms of noun asphyxiation
2 senses of asphyxiation
Holonyms of noun asphyxiation
Grep of noun asphyxiation
asphyxiation
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