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Meanings of strangulation in English

Spanish
estrangulación
Catalan
estrangulació
Wikidata

Cause of death.

Related terms
estrangulación
Portuguese
estrangulamento
Catalan
estrangulació

The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe.

estrangulamento

Strangulation in the context of domestic violence is a potentially lethal form of assault.

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Examples for "strangulating"
Examples for "strangulating"
1
Leaf-buds changed into flower-buds by wounding the bark, or strangulating a part of the branch.
The Botanic Garden / A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of...
2
He stated that he remembered firing the shots, but had no remembrance of strangulating her.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
3
Neither flashing eyes nor strangulating length made for fear.
Tropic Days
4
If the election will be held and will be reasonably secure... that means they are not strangulating us.
Reuters
5
The hernia atypically externalized in two-steps creating two superposed concentric small bowel strangulating hernias producing through two distinctive superposed orifices.
Pubmed
Usage of strangulation in English
1
In cases where strangulation is suspected, clinicians say medical care is crucial.
Feminist dot com
2
His Central Criminal Court trial has heard that she died of strangulation.
The Irish Times
3
Had luck so far in getting shootings, and even got a strangulation.
The new yorker
4
I told Pete about the strangulation, the cat, the chip, and Dinh.
Break No Bones
5
Police Commissioner Rolf Sandberg said the cause of his death was strangulation.
The Irish Times
6
There were howls from the slaves all around him, encouraging the strangulation.
Complete Books of Blood
7
He'd started by starving the girls, but quickly moved on to strangulation.
The cold room
8
Emma felt the scratches on her neck from the near-strangulation last weekend.
The Lying Game
9
This is more like a strangulation, while those were like a beheading.
Arcanum Unbounded
10
According to the postmortem report, the mother's cause of death was strangulation.
The South African
11
The occurrence of petechiae indicates that the cause of death was strangulation.
Kennedy's brain
12
It was death by slow strangulation, life sucked out breath by breath.
The man who ate the 747
13
This isn't exactly the first time the issue of self-strangulation has come up.
The sherlockian
14
Police file an average of 33 strangulation charges before the court every week.
Radio NZ
15
That day, new legislation came into force with a stronger penalty for strangulation.
Radio NZ
16
Previous forensic medical literature on strangulation focused on victims of homicide, he says.
Feminist dot com
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Translations for strangulation
Portuguese
estrangulamento
Strangulation through the time
Strangulation across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common