Leaf-buds changed into flower-buds by wounding the bark, or strangulating a part of the branch.
2
He stated that he remembered firing the shots, but had no remembrance of strangulating her.
3
Neither flashing eyes nor strangulating length made for fear.
4
If the election will be held and will be reasonably secure... that means they are not strangulating us.
5
The hernia atypically externalized in two-steps creating two superposed concentric small bowel strangulating hernias producing through two distinctive superposed orifices.
6
Behind the bar was one of the staff, a teenager in an ill-fitting white shirt and a strangulating black tie.
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Add to this overwhelming terror of fright, the strangulating effects of sighing and shrieking, and you have a complete picture of child-torture.