strangulate
verb
stran·gu·late
ˈstraŋ-gyə-ˌlāt 
strangulated; strangulating
: to become constricted so as to stop circulation
the hernia will strangulate
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These hernias can become strangulated.
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Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
Surgery can prevent the hernia from becoming strangulated.
—Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
This is done with brazen & unapologetic vengeance to strangulate remotely critical voices.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
Birdlike calls periodically ring out, but they are confined, desperate, strangulated.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
There’s a general sense of strangulating grief-doom, dramatized with scenes where crazy stuff happens to someone who suddenly WAKES UP in their bed.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020
Clarinetist Robert Woolfrey was amusingly strangulated in the passage where the noose is tightened around Till's neck, and first associate concertmaster Peter Otto played his solo passages with style and grace.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017
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Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
Surgery can prevent the hernia from becoming strangulated.
—Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
This is done with brazen & unapologetic vengeance to strangulate remotely critical voices.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
Birdlike calls periodically ring out, but they are confined, desperate, strangulated.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
There’s a general sense of strangulating grief-doom, dramatized with scenes where crazy stuff happens to someone who suddenly WAKES UP in their bed.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020
Clarinetist Robert Woolfrey was amusingly strangulated in the passage where the noose is tightened around Till's neck, and first associate concertmaster Peter Otto played his solo passages with style and grace.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017
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strangulate
verb
stran·gu·late
ˈstraŋ-gyə-ˌlāt
strangulated; strangulating
: to become constricted so as to stop circulation
the hernia will strangulate and become necrotic
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