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strangulate

[strang-gyuh-layt] / ˈstræŋ gjəˌleɪt /
VERB
asphyxiate
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"The T cell attack seemed to incite oligodendrocytes to strangulate axons like a constrictor snake" Martini adds.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

I am not in very truth, and may the first jest I attempt to utter strangulate me outright, before it escapes from my lips.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío

The autopsy report said the obstruction was “in the form of a strangulated small bowel caused by adhesions that developed after bariatric surgery years ago.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Mr Iles died from a strangulated hernia that cut off the blood supply to his heart at 17:10 GMT on 19 March.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2022

Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.

From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017

After two strangulated, ultimately hysterical weeks in France it really is time to go home.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2016

They knew what ailed the Honourable Jason Mallard—that he was a victim of a strangulated ambition, of an egotistic hernia.

From The Thunders of Silence by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

“Its civilian institutions affect hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, mainly Shia. It’s a way of strangulating the community further.”

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024

Consultations with doctors eventually brought a brutal diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder in which the muscles in the larynx tighten or lapse into spasms, strangulating speech while making singing a significant challenge.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Time is no longer a luxury, but a deprivation tied to the strangulating struggle for survival.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

His finding his voice as a young guy, and really coming into his own, was an escape from a situation at home that I think was kind of strangulating.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2018

This pressure not only adds to the patient's suffering but may at the same time endanger the life of the affected parts by strangulating the blood vessels.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener




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