Usually means: Deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.
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  1. asphyxiation: Merriam-Webster
  2. asphyxiation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asphyxiation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. asphyxiation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Asphyxiation, asphyxiation: Wordnik
  6. asphyxiation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. asphyxiation: Wiktionary
  8. Asphyxiation, asphyxiation: Dictionary.com
  9. asphyxiation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Asphyxiation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Asphyxiation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. asphyxiation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. asphyxiation: Rhymezone
  14. Asphyxiation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. asphyxiation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. asphyxiation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. asphyxiation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. asphyxiation: Merriam-Webster

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  1. asphyxiation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. asphyxiation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. asphyxiation: Medical dictionary

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  1. Asphyxiation: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

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  1. Asphyxiation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See asphyxiate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (asphyxiation)

noun:  Death due to lack of oxygen.
noun:  An acute lack of oxygen.

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