Strangulate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strangulate \Stran"gu*late\, a. (Bot.)
     Strangulated.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  strangulate
       v 1: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air;
            "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston
            has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: {strangle},
             {throttle}]
       2: constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of
          blood or air
       3: become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate"