Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of strangling or strangulating.
  • noun The state of being strangled or strangulated.
  • noun Medicine Constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or another fluid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or state of strangling; a sudden and violent compression of the windpipe, constriction being applied directly to the neck, either around it or in the fore part, or from within the esophagus, so as to prevent the passage of air, and thereby suspend respiration and, if the constriction is prolonged, destroy life.
  • noun In pathology, the state of a part too closely constricted, as the intestine in strangulated hernia.
  • noun Excessive or abnormal constriction of any kind.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
  • noun (Med.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act of strangling or the state of being strangled
  • noun the constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
  • noun (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
  • noun the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin strangulatio ("choking suffocation"), from strangulare ("to choke, suffocate"); see strangle.

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Examples

  • I believe it reasonable to believe that strangulation is the strategy, and that has begun towork.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stupak Solution? 2010

  • "If the strangulation is prolonged, which is something that can happen very quickly, death or serious injury can result."

    CDC warns of 'choking game' deaths, risks 2008

  • Therefore it seems to me of some importance to know whether strangulation is now coming to be the normal practice.

    As I Please 1946

  • "The overall pattern of injuries indicate an episode of manual compression of the neck that is known as strangulation," Mr Lickley told the jury.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • Almost sounds like an autoerotic self-strangulation, which is quite different from suicide.

    Kung Fu star David Carradine dead 2009

  • The strangulation is a classical method of killing in this kind of a situation as opposed obviously to shooting, stabbing, and even beating.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009 2009

  • And the strangulation is a classical method of killing in this kind of a situation as opposed, obviously, to shooting, stabbing, and even beating.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009 2009

  • The strangulation was the sum of all his frustrations and fears.

    Supernatural: Good God, Y’All - Pink Raygun.com 2009

  • Almost sounds like an autoerotic self-strangulation, which is quite different from suicide.

    Kung Fu star David Carradine dead 2009

  • The strangulation was the cause of death and the dismemberment was clearly after death, and most likely done for the purpose of trying to conceal the murder and dispose of the body.

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2007 2007

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