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strangulate

[ UK /stɹˈænɡjʊlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹæŋɡjəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air
  2. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
    A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes
    he tried to strangulate his opponent
  3. become constricted
    The hernia will strangulate

How To Use strangulate In A Sentence

  • What American would finally not see who is willing to triangulate and who just wants to strangulate? Mark Olmsted: Call McConnell's Bluff
  • The Government has decided to legislate, regulate and, as usual, strangulate.
  • My idea is not to strangulate " the business, he said, noting that it can be an effective tool for reaching poor people with financial services who fall outside the banking mainstream. India
  • Five counties of the state were in this manner made bankrupt, and for a long time under special laws were known as "strangulated" counties. Two boys in the Civil War and after,
  • In Mexico, a mariachi band was strangulated and he stretched the skin of their bodies end to end covering the floor of his hovel. Around the World
  • Its very important to differentially diagnose between simple intestinal obstruction and strangulated intestinal obstruction.
  • Sometimes to an introsusception of one part of the intestine into another, and very frequently to a strangulated hernia or rupture. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Abdomen aciculate as in the worker, but much more deeply strangulated between the first and second segments; the petiole rugose and clavate. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • In the 1990s and beyond, institutions of higher education in Africa, especially the universities, must contend with several interrelated major problems, whose combined effect threatens to strangulate them…
  • Not only would it steer clear of the muscular cultural nationalism flaunted by the Hindutva brigade, but also fight forcefully the soulless secular policies thrust by the Marxists to strangulate the national polity. Archive 2007-09-01
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