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2 down - cut vital supply to a timid 11 worried about power (10)?

I know the answer is asphyxiate and the beginning comes from a s(p)hy xi but where does the ate at the end come from?
16:15 Mon 16th Jul 2012
 
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ate= worried, as in what's eating you?
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A penny has dropped. Thanks dr b.

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