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the way in which aquatic creatures die due to being out of the water? When we can't get air, we asphyxiate; what do they do?
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I think you could still say 'asphyxiate' Jackie as they die from lack of oxygen, not lack of water. They need to be in the water to breathe.
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asphyxia 1706, "stoppage of pulse," from Modern Latin, from Gk. asphyxia "stopping of the pulse," from a- "not" + sphyzein "to throb." The current sense of "suffocation" is from 1778, but it is a "curious infelicity of etymology" [OED] since victims of suffocation have a pulse for some time after breathing has stopped.
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