strangulation

English

Etymology

From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.

Pronunciation

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Noun

strangulation (countable and uncountable, plural strangulations)

1. The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
   • 1963 June, “News and Comment: The North-West and the Plan”, in Modern Railways, page 365:

     Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.

2. The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.

Related terms

• strangle
• strangulate

Translations

act of strangling

• Bulgarian: задушаване n (zadušavane)
• Catalan: estrangulació f
• Dutch: wurging (nl) f, worging (nl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγχόνη f (ankhónē)

• Latin: angor m
• Maori: ronanga
• Polish: uduszenie (pl) n
• Spanish: estrangulación (es)
• Swedish: strypning (sv) c

Further reading

• “strangulation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “strangulation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “strangulation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

strangulation f (plural strangulations)

1. strangulation

Further reading

• “strangulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.