asfixia

n. suffocation, asphyxia

v. asphyxiate, suffocate; be suffocated

n. asphyxia, suffocation; choke; apnea (Medicine)

v. asphyxiate, suffocate, smother, choke

to choke
to suffocate
(din cauza oxidului de carbon) = to be poisoned by charcoal fumes

= suffocation, asphyxia.
Ex: Her article examines the problems of 'suffocation by the overproduction of information' and 'the withholding of information by new technologies'.
Ex: The book recommends asphyxia by plastic bag combined with the ingestion of lethal doses of certain drugs.

= smother, suffocate, stifle.
Ex: This article outlines the preparatory stages and describes some of the problems presented by the physical conditions in a city of tents either drenched by rain or smothered by dust = Este artículo esboza las etapas preparatorias y describe algunos de los problemas que presentan las condiciones físicas de una gran cantidad de tiendas de campaña empapadas por la lluvia o cubiertas por el polvo.
Ex: The United Nations has been accused of 'drowning in its own words and suffocating in its own documentation'.
Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.