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▪ I. † ˈstrangulate, n. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. strangulātum, neut. pa. pple. of strangulāre to strangle.]
A strangled animal.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. v. ii. (1852) 262 The principal entanglements of their idolatry lay in these four things: of idolathytes, fornication, blood, and strangulates.
▪ II. strangulate, a. Bot.|ˈstræŋgjʊlət|
[ad. L. strangulātus pa. pple. of strangulāre to strangle.]
= strangulated ppl. a. 3.
1866Treas. Bot. 1102/1 Strangulate, contracted and expanded in an irregular manner.
▪ III. strangulate, v.|ˈstræŋgjʊleɪt|
[f. L. strangulāt- ppl. stem of strangulāre: see strangle v.]
†1. trans. To choke, stifle, suffocate. Obs.
1665M. N[edham] Med. Medicinæ 327 This..strangulates all thoughts of devising more potent Medicins, or of introducing other Methods.
2. Path. and Surg. To constrict or compress (an organ, duct, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or the passage of fluid; to remove (a growth) by constricting it with a ligature.
1771–[implied in strangulated ppl. a.]. 1875Buckland Log-Book 222 When the horn [of the deer] has attained its full development the ‘burr’ appears at the base of the horn, and strangulates the blood-vessels. 1876Gross Dis. Bladder 151 On removing the obturator the growth is fairly exposed, and can be strangulated, cut, scraped, or torn away. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 33 If, after injecting them, the operation of twisting, and thus strangulating, one testicle was performed..violent inflammation with sloughing..took place. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 794 A loop of bowel is snared and acutely strangulated. Ibid. IV. 355 The new fibroid tissue gradually contracts,..and narrows and strangulates the tubes which it involves.
b. transf. To choke (a plant); to prevent the flow of sap in (a tree). Also fig.
1835Southey Doctor interch. vii. (1848) 165 The creepers of literature, who suck their food, like the ivy, from what they strangulate and kill. 1841Florist's Jrnl. (1846) II. 129 In order to arrest this same elaborated sap in the branches, every plan of reversing, or ringing, or strangulating them, is advised to prevent it sinking to the roots.
3. To prevent respiration in (a person) by constriction of the trachea; = strangle v. rare.
1829Landor Imag. Conv., Penn & Ld. Peterborough Wks. 1853 I. 548/1 If we cry out, there is always a hand in readiness to stop our mouths, and to stifle and strangulate such as would resist.
Hence ˈstrangulating ppl. a.
1822–27Good Study Med. (1829) V. 81 We often meet with a troublesome phimosis, either of the strangulating or incarcerating kind. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 412 Struggling in the many-fingered grasp of the strangulating heather. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. xii. 1056 The cough becomes more difficult and strangulating. |