strangulate

English

Etymology

From Latin strangulō.

Pronunciation

  • (without /æ/ raising) IPA(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(j)əleɪ̯t/
    • (/æ/ raising) IPA(key): /ˈstɹeɪ̯ŋɡ(j)əleɪ̯t/, /ˈstɹɛ̃ŋɡ(j)əleɪ̯t/
  • Hyphenation: stran‧gu‧late

Verb

strangulate (third-person singular simple present strangulates, present participle strangulating, simple past and past participle strangulated)

  1. To strangle.
    • 1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC:
      One moment I was ashamed and frightened, another recklessly optimistic. Taboos strangulated me. Psychoanalysts wooed me with pseudoliberations of pseudolibidoes.
  2. (medicine) To stop flow through a vessel.

Latin

Verb

strangulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of strangulō
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