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 EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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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