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What is the difference between choke and suffocate and asphyxiate ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between choke and suffocate and asphyxiate ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Suffocate and asphyxiate is similiar. One is more of a medical term. Normally people just say suffocate when something is stuck in their windpipe.
Choking is an action which leads to suffocation. Someone choking someone by holding their arms on their necks to kill them.
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