Dictionary Entry
strangulation
strangulation is a 13-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
- 2noun
Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
- 3noun
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
"no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
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- 4noun
(pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
"strangulation of the intestine"
- 5noun
the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
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