suffocation


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

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"As to suffocation, Captain," I replied, "that is not to be feared, because our reservoirs are full."
On that evening, Captain Nemo ought to open the taps of his reservoirs, and let some pure air into the interior of the Nautilus; without this precaution we could not get rid of the sense of suffocation. The next day, March 26th, I resumed my miner's work in beginning the fifth yard.
It was that or death, and I was a swimmer and diver, and I knew it; and in the most intolerable agony of prolonged suffocation, during those moments I was conscious, I faced the wind and the cinders and breathed for life.
I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it violently, before the sense of suffocation will come.
'The public dinner to our distinguished fellow-colonist and townsman, WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, Port Middlebay District Magistrate, came off yesterday in the large room of the Hotel, which was crowded to suffocation. It is estimated that not fewer than forty-seven persons must have been accommodated with dinner at one time, exclusive of the company in the passage and on the stairs.
"London in danger of suffocation! The Kingston and Rich- mond defences forced!
The very atmosphere that Elizabeth inhaled was hot and dry, and by the time she reached the point where the course led her from the highway she experienced a sensation like suffocation. But, disregarding her feelings, she hastened to execute her mission, dwelling on nothing but the disappointment, and even the helplessness, the hunter would experience without her aid.
But so long as we kept our nostrils buried in our handkerchiefs, there was small danger of suffocation.
Nicholl hastened to stop the escape of oxygen with which the atmosphere was saturated, which would have been the death of the travelers, not by suffocation, but by combustion.
We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Children unintentionally forgotten inside cars or school buses could suffer from heat exhaustion and suffocation, which could even lead to death, as temperatures hit over 40C - increasing by an additional 30C inside a locked vehicle.
HARIPUR -- Two real brothers Saturday lost their lives when the younger brother fell into the well and the elder one also jumped to save him and both died owing to suffocation.
Babies should always be placed on their back for every sleep, night and day ?All teddies, pillows and cot bumpers should be removed from the cot as they are potential suffocation and strangulation hazards ?
Summary: Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], June 15 (ANI): Seven people, including 4 sanitation workers, died in Fartikui village allegedly due to suffocation while cleaning a hotel's septic tank in a hotel.
Attock -- Three persons died of suffocation inside a well while another fell unconscious while rectifying water pump in Adilzai area of Hazro Police station limits on Tuesday.