Big Huge Thesaurus

asphyxiate

verb

• smother
• suffocate
• stifle
• choke
• block
• buy the farm
• cash in one's chips
• close up
• conk
• croak
• decease
• die
• drop dead
• exit
• expire
• give-up the ghost
• go
• impede
• jam
• kick the bucket
• kill
• obstruct
• obturate
• occlude
• pass
• pass away
• perish
• pop off
• snuff it

sounds kind of like

• aspect
• asphyxiated
• auspicate