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strangulate

verb

stran·​gu·​late ˈstraŋ-gyə-ˌlāt How to pronounce strangulate (audio)
strangulated; strangulating

intransitive verb

: to become constricted so as to stop circulation
the hernia will strangulate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Birdlike calls periodically ring out, but they are confined, desperate, strangulated. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020 There’s a general sense of strangulating grief-doom, dramatized with scenes where crazy stuff happens to someone who suddenly WAKES UP in their bed. Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020 Clarinetist Robert Woolfrey was amusingly strangulated in the passage where the noose is tightened around Till's neck, and first associate concertmaster Peter Otto played his solo passages with style and grace. Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017

Word History

Etymology

Latin strangulatus, past participle of strangulare

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of strangulate was in 1665

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