strangulation

Meanings

• 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;
• "strangulation of the intestine"

Synonyms

• choking
• strangling
• throttling

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