strangulate

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strangulate /ˈstraŋgjʊleɪt/

▶verb (often as adj. strangulated)

• 1 Medicine prevent blood circulation through (a part, especially a hernia) by constriction.

• 2 informal strangle.

  ■ (as adj. strangulated) sounding as though the speaker's throat is constricted.

– derivatives
strangulation noun.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘suffocate’; earlier (C16) as strangulation): from L. strangulat-, strangulare ‘choke’ (see strangle).