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noun the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
noun the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
noun (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
originFrom Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.
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