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
And adding to his discomfort was chronic pain from a hernia that eventually strangulated, resulting in emergency surgery.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2020
A peppy digidub riddim sets up its groove in a dark room, and soon phantom figures are flitting in and out: a skittering drum pattern here, a strangulated holler there.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2017
Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.
From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017
Let us take Richmond,—a thing impossible with McClellan,—and take by land Charleston, Savannah, etc.; then the pirates and belligerents are strangulated.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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
Leaf-buds changed into flower-buds by wounding the bark, or strangulating a part of the branch.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
