Asphyxiate vs Asphyxiates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between asphyxiate and asphyxiates

is that asphyxiate is to smother or suffocate someone while asphyxiates is .

To smother or suffocate someone.

To be smothered or suffocated.

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(asphyxiate)

To smother or suffocate someone.

To be smothered or suffocated.