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strangulation

stranggyuhlay shuhn

  • n  the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
  • n  the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
  • n  (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
    strangulation of the intestine

  • Dogs that lost were allegedly put down by strangulation, hanging or electrocution.
  • But it turns out that the 84-year-old despot was just slow off the mark in beginning the further strangulation of his own nation.
  • Let me count the ways: mangled under the wheels of a truck, strangulation, fracturing the skull, taking out the tibula, laceration, crushed under the wheels of a car, death by .
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  • Mark Shields in Reuters India
    The death on Sunday was "due to asphyxiation by manual strangulation", deputy commissioner Mark Shields told a news conference at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston where Woolmer died on Sunday.
  • Huwaida Arraf in Bernama
    The newspaper quoted Arraf as saying that it was all about "ending this deliberate strangulation of Gaza".
  • Sharon Hom in New York Times
    Instead of the progressive strangulation of rights defense work,said Sharon Hom, the group's executive director, "the Chinese authorities need to demonstrate their commitment to respect the professionalism and independence of the legal...

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