The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled. [1913 Webster]
Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

strangulation, n.
1 the act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
2 the act of strangulating.

Etymology

L strangulatio (as STRANGULATE)

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THESAURUS

strangulation

abbreviation, abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, asphyxia, asphyxiation, astriction, astringency, bar, barrier, beheading, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, burking, burning, capital punishment, cecum, cervix, choke, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, congestion, consolidation, constipation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, costiveness, crucifixion, cul-de-sac, curtailment, dead end, decapitation, decollation, decrease, defenestration, deracination, diminuendo, drowning, electrocution, elimination, embolism, embolus, eradication, execution, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fusillade, garrote, gassing, gorge, hanging, hemlock, hourglass, hourglass figure, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, isthmus, jam, judicial murder, killing, knitting, lapidation, liquidation, liver death, megadeath, narrow place, narrowing, neck, necktie party, negation, nullification, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, poisoning, puckering, purge, pursing, reduction, rooting out, sealing off, serum death, shooting, shortening, silencing, smotheration, smothering, snuffing out, solidification, starvation, stifling, stoning, stop, stoppage, stranglement, strangling, striction, stricture, suffocation, suppression, systole, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, throttling, uprooting, violent death, voiding, wasp waist, watery grave, wrinkling

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strangulation

Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.

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