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strangulate
Overview of verb strangulate
The verb strangulate has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. strangle, strangulate, throttle -- (kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes")
2. strangulate -- (constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air)
3. strangulate -- (become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate")
Antonyms of verb strangulate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb strangulate
3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
Sense 2
strangulate
=> compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
=> tighten
=> change
Sense 3
strangulate
=> constrict, constringe, narrow
=> tighten
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb strangulate
1 of 3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb strangulate
3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
Sense 2
strangulate
=> compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
Sense 3
strangulate
=> constrict, constringe, narrow
'Cause To' of verb strangulate
Derived Forms of verb strangulate
2 of 3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
RELATED TO>(noun) strangulation#1
=> choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
Sense 2
strangulate
RELATED TO>(noun) strangulation#3
=> strangulation
Domain of verb strangulate
Domain Terms of verb strangulate
Familiarity of verb strangulate
strangulate used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb strangulate
3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
EX: They want to strangulate the prisoners
Sense 2
strangulate
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
strangulate
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb strangulate
3 senses of strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Sense 2
strangulate
> compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
=> choke, strangle
=> prim
=> astringe
=> strangulate
=> convulse
=> convulse
=> bear down, overbear
=> choke, gag, fret
=> choke, scrag
Sense 3
strangulate
> constrict, constringe, narrow
=> astringe
=> strangulate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb strangulate
Sense 1
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
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Sense 2
strangulate
=> compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
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Sense 3
strangulate
=> constrict, constringe, narrow
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Grep of verb strangulate
strangulate
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