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    asphyxia


    1. But then it came out in court that she and her husband had found out about this sexual asphyxia on some documentary channel on cable – maybe Sex TV - and thought they"d give it a try


    2. “Sexual asphyxia was the key to the crime committed in that film


    3. f) The countries are liberated of the asphyxia of the internal and external indebtedness, because the Project will accumulate immensity of money that will make possible the payment of the debt and socioeconomic development


    4. The extinction is thus a combination of "asphyxia" and cooling


    5. is suppressed by asphyxia, but the cooling is the most important element to


    6. in asphyxia in the confined area of a lift at a time when you are unlikely to be


    7. Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,—instead of all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's teeth, and to writhe, and to


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    "asphyxia" definitions

    a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas