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单词 strangulation
释义
strangulationstran‧gu‧la‧tion /ˌstræŋɡjəˈleɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINstrangulation
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin strangulatio, from strangulare ‘to strangle’, from Greek strangalan, from strangale ‘cord’
Examples
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  • A post-mortem revealed Mrs Johnstone had died from strangulation.
  • He was martyred in Alexandria by means of strangulation.
  • I expect strangulation is full of old-fashioned symbolism.
  • In her fits of lacerating sarcasm, I feel my hands twitch with the impulse toward strangulation.
  • It was the fear of death and all the ways in which it might arrive: shooting, strangulation, suffocation.
  • Two teachers using a system called Hwarang-do applying a combined neck strangulation and head twisting technique.
  • We had a mutual strangulation society.
  • Wycliffe looked for signs of strangulation but found none.
the act of killing someone by pressing on their throat, or the fact of being killed in this way
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