| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ASPHYXIA | Suffocation | |
| ASPHYXIATION | Suffocation | |
| APNOEA | Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation. | |
| THROTTLE | To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate. | |
| ASPHYXY | Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases. | |
| BURKE | To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. | |
| ANGINA | Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. | |
| SMOTHER | To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire. | |
| QUINSY | ...ammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey. ... | |