strangulation
Americannoun
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strangulations
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the act or process of cutting off someone's ability to breathe by squeezing their throat.
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the state of having one's ability to breathe cut off because one's throat is being squeezed.
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Pathology. a state in which a tube in the body is constricted so that fluids cannot flow through it.
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The coroner determined that the markings found on her body were consistent with “postmortem insect activity” and were not evidence of strangulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Soccer history, said the slow strangulation of high school soccer will ensure some talented players will be overlooked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Might we now be witnessing its death, or gradual strangulation?
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
Johanna Robinson, a member of the Sentencing Council, called the new guidelines "a really important recognition of the harm that occurs within strangulation and suffocation".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
The startled sparrow shot downwards and stopped with a jerk, only thick neck feathers saving her from strangulation.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Accidental suffocations and strangulations aren't necessarily happening more often, some experts say; rather, fatality review teams have become better at identifying causes of death.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023
“It’s not complicated. It might be hard, but it’s not complicated. That’s just math. It’s the same reason these days we have fewer strangulations with a landline.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Sir Thomas Browne said that in his day the Elder had become a famous medicine for quinsies, sore throats, and strangulations.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Strangulations.—We are now in a position to understand the so-called strangulations which result when woody climbers, telegraph wires, etc.,
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
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