Definition of "strangulate" []

• To strangle. (verb-transitive)
• Pathology To compress, constrict, or obstruct (an organ, duct, or other body part) so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid: strangulate an intestinal hernia. (verb-transitive)
• To be or become strangled, compressed, constricted, or obstructed. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Charlie Kennel was handpicked by Dan Goldin to lead Earth Science and to strangulate EOS."
• "Resisting the urge to strangulate the offending appliance with its own electrical cord I hadn't the energy, to be honest; I quite literally rolled out of bed and dropped to the floor."
• "The ideal of freedom, its protection at home as well as its evangelization overseas, is repeatedly invoked to justify military interventionism, almost as if without a world vigilante constantly fanning the flames of liberty, asphyxiation would strangulate the planet's supposedly oppressed."