2) Cockles. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...To cry cockles. To be hanged; from the gurgling noise made in strangulation. 1...

3) -ation. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1a. Action or process: strangulation. b. The result of an action or process: acculturation. 2. State, condition, or quality of: eburnation. Middle English -acioun,...

4) Quinsy. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...abbreviation. The Latin word is cynanchia, and the Greek word kunanche, from kuon anche, dog strangulation, because persons suffering from quinsy throw open the mouth...

5) strangle. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...is both transitive and intransitive, meaning to kill someone by strangling and to die by strangulation. Like drowning, strangling cannot be done part way, although...

6) autoerotic asphyxia. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A form of sexual masochism in which oxygen flow to the brain is reduced, as by controlled strangulation or suffocation, in order to enhance the pleasure of masturbation....

7) 4244. Artaud, Antonin. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ATTRIBUTION:Antonin Artaud...

8) 4252. Artaud, Antonin. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ATTRIBUTION:Antonin Artaud...

9) Garrot'e or Garotte (2 syl., g hard). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the victim on a chair with a cord round his neck, then to twist the cord with a stick till strangulation ensued. In 1851 General Lopez was garrotted by the Spanish...

10) 195. Contraction. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...constraint, astriction [rare], compactness; compendium [See Compendium]; squeezing &c. v.; strangulation; corrugation; constringency, astringency; astringents, sclerotics;...