Sentence:  It was this last possibility that <WSD>sucked the air out of</WSD> me. It was this that caused me to finally collapse back into the driver's seat of my car and tremble like I'd just come in soaking wet from a cold, hard rain, like I'd just started trying to extract the poison from my system all over again. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To destroy; to cause to become lifeless and empty.