Associations to the word «Strangulate»

Wiktionary

STRANGULATE, verb. (medicine) To stop flow through a vessel.
STRANGULATE, verb. To strangle.

Dictionary definition

STRANGULATE, verb. Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes".
STRANGULATE, verb. Constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air.
STRANGULATE, verb. Become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus