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Strangulation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of strangling or the state of being strangled. countable, uncountable

    "Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance."

  2. 2
    the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe wordnet
  3. 3
    The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid wordnet
  5. 5
    the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage wordnet

Etymology

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

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