11) strangles. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...around the throat that cause a strangling or choking sensation. From Middle English strangle, strangulation, from stranglen, to strangle. See strangle....
12) garrote. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...or break the neck of a condemned person. b. The iron collar used for such an execution. 2a. Strangulation, especially in order to rob. b. A cord or wire used for...
13) 357. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of
Quotations. 1989
...Hoover referred to "three great perils" that the nation faced. The first of these was the "strangulation of credit through the removal of 3 billions of gold and currency...
14) strangle. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...solely in social terms (James Baldwin). 1. To become strangled. 2. To die from suffocation or strangulation; choke. Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler,...
15) 361. Killing. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases
...&c. (capital punishment) [See Punishment]; judicial murder; martyrdom. SUFFOCATION, strangulation, garrote or garrotte; hanging &c. v. SLAYER, butcher, murderer,...
16) hernia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the protruding structure is caught in the muscular aperture of the wall, the result is a strangulation of the part, or an incarcerated hernia. Prompt medical attention...
17) 972. Punishment. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...shooting &c. v.; electrocution, decapitation, decollation, dismemberment; strangling, strangulation, garrote or garrotte; crucifixion, impalement; martyrdom, auto-da-fé...
18) Chapter LVII. Scott, Sir Walter. 1917. Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer.
Vol. IV. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...joins the skull, had received severe injury by his first fall. There were distinct marks of strangulation about the throat, which corresponded with the blackened...
19) VI. Book Four: The Voyage of the Anchises. Cather, Willa. 1922. One of Ours
...that came from his throat, sounds like violent vomiting, or the choking rattle of a man in strangulation,—and, indeed, he was being strangled. One of the band boys...
20) Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops. Frazer, Sir
James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...him to death varied in different places. One of the commonest modes seems to have been strangulation, or squeezing to death. The branch of a green tree was cleft...
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