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| strangulation (1. the act of killing sb by squeezing their throat tightly; the state of being killed in this way • to die of slow strangulation 2. (disapproving) the act of preventing something from growing or developing • the strangulation of the human spirit. OALD. The post-mortem showed that the boy had died from strangulation. CALD Alexander Demidov) | |||