strangulate
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"The T cell attack seemed to incite oligodendrocytes to strangulate axons like a constrictor snake" Martini adds.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
I am not in very truth, and may the first jest I attempt to utter strangulate me outright, before it escapes from my lips.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
The autopsy report said the obstruction was “in the form of a strangulated small bowel caused by adhesions that developed after bariatric surgery years ago.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Verlaine’s voice would never be ingratiating enough for a broad audience; it was reedy, yelpy, quavery, a bit strangulated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Mr Iles died from a strangulated hernia that cut off the blood supply to his heart at 17:10 GMT on 19 March.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2022
Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.
From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017
With a prelude like this, the inexperienced physician might expect strangulated hernia or some preliminary symptoms of brain tumor, but what he usually finds is a varicocele, and a small one at that.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Consultations with doctors eventually brought a brutal diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder in which the muscles in the larynx tighten or lapse into spasms, strangulating speech while making singing a significant challenge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Time is no longer a luxury, but a deprivation tied to the strangulating struggle for survival.
From Salon ● May 22, 2022
His finding his voice as a young guy, and really coming into his own, was an escape from a situation at home that I think was kind of strangulating.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2018
The hardcore metal trio resumes its litany of strangulating vocals, scraping grind and testosterone-rich heaviness.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jul. 20, 2013
The one man out of the two skeleton companies of infantry stationed in the interior town who remained seemingly impervious to the strangulating force of the tightening net was Spurrier himself.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
