Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To strangle.
- intransitive verb Medicine To compress, constrict, or obstruct (an organ, duct, or other body part) so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid.
- intransitive verb To be or become strangled, compressed, constricted, or obstructed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
strangulated . - To strangle; in pathology, to compress so as to suppress the function of a part, as a loop of intestine, a vessel, or a nerve. See
strangulated .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Strangulated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb medicine To stop flow through a
vessel . - verb To
strangle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- verb constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air
- verb become constricted
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Charlie Kennel was handpicked by Dan Goldin to lead Earth Science and to strangulate EOS.
Other Names Indicate Greening of NASA, Focus on Science - NASA Watch 2009
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Resisting the urge to strangulate the offending appliance with its own electrical cord I hadn't the energy, to be honest; I quite literally rolled out of bed and dropped to the floor.
Kristie Ko: Stress? Live Your Life, and Don't Settle For Less Kristie Ko 2011
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But only in the last three years have they gotten dangerously high, fueling algae blooms that strangulate fish, smother the water in a putrid green-and-turquoise foam, clog boat engines, foul the air with rancid odors, and emit toxins that can cause permanent health problems in people.
David Kirby: The Price of Cheap Meat: A Lake Dies in Ohio 2010
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What American would finally not see who is willing to triangulate and who just wants to strangulate?
Mark Olmsted: Call McConnell's Bluff Mark Olmsted 2010
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What American would finally not see who is willing to triangulate and who just wants to strangulate?
Mark Olmsted: Call McConnell's Bluff Mark Olmsted 2010
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The ideal of freedom, its protection at home as well as its evangelization overseas, is repeatedly invoked to justify military interventionism, almost as if without a world vigilante constantly fanning the flames of liberty, asphyxiation would strangulate the planet's supposedly oppressed.
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" 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 Paul Beckett 2010
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Surely the Yanks and the Queen of England have now settled any residual grudges dating back to pre 1776 and there is no longer any need to publicly strangulate Her Majesty's language - at least not on a British Blog.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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So far US has and is trying to strangulate Iran's economy (please read "Plan for Economic Strangulation of Iran"), repeatedly breached the Iranian airspace, arrested its diplomats and according to the latest reports probably has been involved in kidnapping another diplomat [13].
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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 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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