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Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

lts from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

f carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of or…

Any irrespirable aëriform fluid.

To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the clos…