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strangulation

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strangulation [‚straŋ·gyə′lā·shən]
(medicine)
Asphyxiation due to obstruction of the air passages, as by external pressure on the neck.
Constriction of a part producing arrest of the circulation, as strangulation of a hernia.
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After the councilor had died -- whether by strangulation or naturally is of no consequence -- the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly isolated from the other houses of the street.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
I may spare myself the details; it was my poor mother, dead of strangulation by human hands!
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The mother writhed in uneasy slumber, her chest wheezing as if she were in the agonies of strangulation.
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