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• 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 .

• choking
• strangling
• throttling

News & Articles

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• D.C. man charged in 2011 slaying near Anacostia Freeway
  This is the second arrest in the stabbing and strangulation death of a 56-year-old man in Northeast.
  June 12, 2013 - Washington Post
• Boise man pleads not guilty to strangulation murder of his wife
  BOISE -- A Boise man pleaded not guilty today to the murder charge filed for the fatal strangulation of his wife. 62-year-old Bruce Macomb pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and not guilty to another charge for failure to notify police of his wife's death. Prosecutors say on Feb. 21, Bruce Macomb held his wife Beba to the ground, straddled her and strangled her until she lost ...
  June 11, 2013 - KTVB Boise
• Two Evansville men face armed robbery and strangulation charges
  Two Evansville men are in jail Monday, charged with armed robbery and strangulation.
  June 10, 2013 - 14 WFIE Evansville

Quotes

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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...