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
Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.
From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017
There is also a bespectacled translator who speaks a strangulated English reminiscent of the TV comedy Monty Python.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2015
The costumes, the videos, even your distinctive voices — David’s strangulated voice and Cyndi’s Betty Boop — —
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2014
Inguinal hernia is but an incomplete scrotal hernia, and, like the latter, may exist and cause no signs of distress, or, again, it may become strangulated and cause death.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
“Its civilian institutions affect hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, mainly Shia. It’s a way of strangulating the community further.”
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
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
Neither flashing eyes nor strangulating length made for fear.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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