suffocation

The act of suffocating, choking, or stifling.

The condition of being suffocated, choked, or stifled.

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.

A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.

the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped)

killing by depriving of oxygen