Difference between Suffocate and Asphyxiate

SUFFOCATE vs ASPHYXIATE: VERB

Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of

To feel discomfort from lack of fresh air.
To become or feel oppressed; be stifled.
To die from lack of air or oxygen.
To suppress the development, imagination, or creativity of; stifle.
To impair the breathing of or cause discomfort to by cutting off the supply of fresh air.
To kill or destroy by preventing access of air or oxygen.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

Synonyms Stifle, Strangle, etc. See smother.
To stifle; smother; extinguish: as, to suffocate fire or live coals.
To impede respiration in; compress so as to prevent respiration.
To kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills.
Suffocated; choked.
Be asphyxiated
Die from lack of oxygen
Struggle for breath
Have insufficient oxygen intake
To become choked, stifled, or smothered: as, we are suffocating in this close room.

To produce asphyxia in; suffocate, or deprive of oxygen to the extent of producing death or very serious symptoms.
Be asphyxiated
Die from lack of oxygen

Thwart, Douse, Suppress, Squeeze, Crush, Muffle, Bury, Stifle, Kill, Drown, Strangle, Gag, Choke, Smother, Asphyxiate

Extricate, Stifle, Electrocute, Inhale, Incapacitate, Breathe, Constrict, Starve, Dismember, Drown, Strangulate, Choke, Strangle, Smother, Suffocate

Quell, Thwart, Douse, Suppress, Squeeze, Crush, Muffle, Bury, Stifle, Kill, Strangle, Gag, Choke, Smother, Asphyxiate

Impale, Disembowel, Entrap, Anesthetize, Paralyze, Stifle, Electrocute, Inhale, Incapacitate, Breathe, Constrict, Starve, Choke, Strangle, Smother

Has a design that may either trap an entrant or hold a toxic atmosphere that may asphyxiate that worker.
I mean really you'd have to wear the same stuff that the cops are wearing obviously not to asphyxiate yourself.
It inhibits lice from closing their respiratory spiracles which allows the product to penetrate lice, causing them to asphyxiate.
Technically muskrats, mink, river otters, nutria, and beaver are unable to breathe under water, and they asphyxiate.
You know, I might asphyxiate myself, just to teach you a lesson.
Stewart causes the capsule to crash, and Forest and Lily asphyxiate.
Asphyxiate is almost always going to be the pick in this row.