stran·gu·la·tion

(străng′gyə-lā′shən)

a. The act of strangling or strangulating.

b. The state of being strangled or strangulated.

2. Medicine Constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or another fluid: strangulation of the intestine.

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Noun	1.	strangulation - the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" strangling, throttling, choking suffocation, asphyxiation - killing by depriving of oxygen
	2.	strangulation - the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
	3.	strangulation - (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine" constriction - the action or process of compressing pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases

Translations

خَنْق

zardoušení

kvælningstrangulering

Erdrosselung

στραγγαλισμός

strangulation étranglement

eltöm és

kyrking

strangolamento

kveling

škrteniezaškrtenie

boğ ma

勒死

strangulation

[ˌstræŋgjʊˈleɪʃən] N → estrangulación f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

strangulation

[ˌstræŋgjʊˈleɪʃ^ən] n → strangulation f
She died by strangulation → Elle est morte par strangulation.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

strangulation

(= being strangled) → Ersticken nt; (= act of strangling) → Erwürgen nt, → Erdrosseln nt; death was due to strangulation → der Tod trat durch Ersticken ein

(Med) → Abschnürung f, → Abbindung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

strangulation

[ˌstræŋgjʊˈleɪʃ/ən] n → strangolamento

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

strangle

(ˈstrӕŋgl) verb

to kill by gripping or squeezing the neck tightly, eg by tightening a cord etc round it. He strangled her with a nylon stocking; This top button is nearly strangling me!

ˌstranguˈlation (-gju-) noun

stran·gu·la·tion

n. estrangulación.

1. asfixia o sofocación gen. causada por obstrucción de las vías aéreas;

2. constricción de un órgano o estructura debida a compresión.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

strangulation

n estrangulación f

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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.

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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. Out at the window a florid moon was peering over dark roofs, and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly.

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This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground.

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There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs.

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Here the examining magistrate readily confirmed the decision of the doctor that, if the murderer had pressed her throat a few seconds longer, Mademoiselle Stangerson would have died of strangulation.

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Then, again, if not poison, what had caused the man's death, since there was neither wound nor marks of strangulation? But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor?

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He had lived in India and acquired an incredible skill in the art of strangulation. He would make them lock him into a courtyard to which they brought a warrior--usually, a man condemned to death-- armed with a long pike and broadsword.

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This execution quieted the ill- disposed, who resolved to allow themselves to die of hunger--this death always appearing to them more slow and less sure than strangulation.

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Gasping as though in the throes of strangulation the fellow pitched forward at Tarzan's feet.

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Then came pain and strangulation. This hurt was not death, was the thought that oscillated through his reeling consciousness.

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But these, too, soon ceased, and a semi-silence settled down, broken by groans and sobs and sounds of strangulation.

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