Definitions for "Suffocation"
The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
The stoppage of respiration. In the nineteenth century, suffocation was reported as being accidental or homicidal. The accidents could be by the impaction of pieces of food or other obstacles in the pharynx or by the entry of foreign bodies into the larynx (as a seed, coin, or food). Suffocation of newborn children by smothering under bedclothes may have happened from carelessness as well as from intent. However, the deaths also could have been due to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), wherein the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, while asleep, typically occurs between the ages of three weeks and five months and is not explained by careful postmortem studies. Synonyms of SIDS: crib death and cot death. It was felt that victims of homicidal suffocation were chiefly infants or feeble and infirm persons.
Suffocation is an American death metal band. They fused the predominant rhythmic styles of early death metal with complex song structures, and started a new subgenre of death metal known as "brutal death metal." Suffocation is placed amongst peers such as Immolation, Mortician, Incantation, and Morpheus (Descends) as being part of a genetic fragment of death metal known as "New York Death Metal," or "NYDM" for short.
A lack of oxygen caused by a mechanical obstruction to the passage of air from the atmosphere to the lungs.
the act of obstructing the air passages, to impair respiration.
killing by depriving of oxygen
the condition of being derprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)
Keywords:  dying, unable, choking, breathe
Choking or dying through being unable to breathe