strangulation
pronunciation
How to pronounce strangulation in British English:
UK [ˌstræŋgjuˈleɪʃn]
How to pronounce strangulation in American English:
US [ˌstræŋɡjəˈleʃən]
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- Noun:
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
Word Origin
- strangulation (n.)
- 1540s, from Latin strangulationem (nominative strangulatio) "a choking, a suffocating," noun of action from past participle stem of strangulare (see strangle). The verb strangulate (1660s) probably is a back-formation from this. Related: Strangulated.
Example
- 1. She died of strangulation and her neck broke .
- 2. Community justice can sometimes resemble legalised lynching , featuring stoning , strangulation or burning with petrol .
- 3. Girls have not been routinely crippled by their mothers since the abolition of foot-binding almost a century ago but in the villages many still die at birth by the traditional methods of stifling or strangulation .
- 4. To be told only that saddam hussein waged campaigns against disloyal kurds in the north of iraq and fugitive shiites in the southern marshes is to miss the dictator 's chemical-gas attacks on kurdish villages and the strangulation of the ancient civilisation of the marsh arabs .
- 5. 1000 Children under the age of 14 die from strangulation accidents each year according to boston children 's hospital .