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suffocate, smother, or asphyxiate?

suffocate, smother, or asphyxiate?
  

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Suffocate is just die from lack of inability to breathe. Smother is killing someone by covering their nose and mouth so that they can't breathe. Asphyxiate is just killing someone/getting killed due to lack of oxygen.

  • Suffocate is just die from lack of inability to breathe.
  • Smother is killing someone by covering their nose and mouth so that they can't breathe.
  • Asphyxiate is just killing someone/getting killed due to lack of oxygen.
  • Prajwal
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Suffocate is just die from lack of inability to breathe.

Smother is killing someone by covering their nose and mouth so that they can't breathe.

Asphyxiate is just killing someone/getting killed due to lack of oxygen.

Prajwal

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