strangulate

"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

Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”.

From Economist ● Jan. 26, 2017

The most common cause of death: strangulated hernia.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016

His voice was husky and strangulated with excitement.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“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

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