strangulate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
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to strangle.
verb
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to constrict (a hollow organ, vessel, etc) so as to stop the natural flow of air, blood, etc, through it
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another word for strangle
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Etymology
Origin of strangulate
1655–65; < Latin strangulātus, past participle of strangulāre to strangle; see -ate 1
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"The T cell attack seemed to incite oligodendrocytes to strangulate axons like a constrictor snake" Martini adds.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
I am not in very truth, and may the first jest I attempt to utter strangulate me outright, before it escapes from my lips.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
The autopsy report said the obstruction was “in the form of a strangulated small bowel caused by adhesions that developed after bariatric surgery years ago.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
And adding to his discomfort was chronic pain from a hernia that eventually strangulated, resulting in emergency surgery.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2020
Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.
From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017
The costumes, the videos, even your distinctive voices — David’s strangulated voice and Cyndi’s Betty Boop — —
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2014
In cases of strangulated hernia, could acupuncture, or puncture with a capillary trocar, be used with safety and advantage to give exit to air contained in the strangulated bowel?
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
“Its civilian institutions affect hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, mainly Shia. It’s a way of strangulating the community further.”
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
Consultations with doctors eventually brought a brutal diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder in which the muscles in the larynx tighten or lapse into spasms, strangulating speech while making singing a significant challenge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Time is no longer a luxury, but a deprivation tied to the strangulating struggle for survival.
From Salon ● May 22, 2022
His finding his voice as a young guy, and really coming into his own, was an escape from a situation at home that I think was kind of strangulating.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2018
The strangulating fumes of the sulphur clung to all the cabin, and puffed in clouds from the pillow when I changed sides; for the wagons clanked and banged till daylight.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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