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Asphyxiating vs Suffocating - What's the difference?

asphyxiating | suffocating |

As verbs the difference between asphyxiating and suffocating

is that asphyxiating is while suffocating is .

As a noun suffocating is

suffocation.

asphyxiating

English

Verb

(head)
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating . He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}

    suffocating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • suffocation
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings .