Choke
Choke noun - A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.
Suffocation and choke are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Suffocation" instead a noun "Choke".
Suffocation
Suffocation noun - The condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped).
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- Suspecting that young Emmett is in the bathysphere, he crimps its oxygen line which causes Citizen Brown to choke, realizing that if young Emmett dies of suffocation, he too will vanish from the timeline.
Source: Recap / Back to the Future
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