"strangulation" meaning in English

See strangulation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav Forms: strangulations [plural]
Etymology: From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|strangulatio||choking, suffocation}} Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} strangulation (countable and uncountable, plural strangulations)
  1. The act of strangling or the state of being strangled. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of strangling): ἀγχόνη (ankhónē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), задушаване (zadušavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), estrangulació [feminine] (Catalan), wurging [feminine] (Dutch), worging [feminine] (Dutch), angor [masculine] (Latin), ronanga (Maori), uduszenie [neuter] (Polish), estrangulación (Spanish), strypning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-strangulation-en-noun-8aq~B~ur Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'act of strangling': 88 12
  2. The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-strangulation-en-noun-xy5XccJ7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: strangle, strangulate

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for strangulation meaning in English (5.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "strangulatio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "choking, suffocation"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strangulations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "strangulation (countable and uncountable, plural strangulations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "strangle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "strangulate"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963 June, “News and Comment: The North-West and the Plan”, in Modern Railways, page 365",
          "text": "Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of strangling or the state of being strangled."
      ],
      "id": "en-strangulation-en-noun-8aq~B~ur",
      "links": [
        [
          "strangling",
          "strangling"
        ],
        [
          "strangled",
          "strangled"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadušavane",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "задушаване"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "estrangulació"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "wurging"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "worging"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ankhónē",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ἀγχόνη"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "angor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "word": "ronanga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "uduszenie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "word": "estrangulación"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act of strangling",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "strypning"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid."
      ],
      "id": "en-strangulation-en-noun-xy5XccJ7",
      "links": [
        [
          "constriction",
          "constriction"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "strangulation"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "strangulatio",
        "4": "",
        "5": "choking, suffocation"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strangulations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "strangulation (countable and uncountable, plural strangulations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "strangle"
    },
    {
      "word": "strangulate"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963 June, “News and Comment: The North-West and the Plan”, in Modern Railways, page 365",
          "text": "Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of strangling or the state of being strangled."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strangling",
          "strangling"
        ],
        [
          "strangled",
          "strangled"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "constriction",
          "constriction"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strangulation.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadušavane",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "задушаване"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estrangulació"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wurging"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "worging"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ankhónē",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀγχόνη"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "angor"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "word": "ronanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "uduszenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "word": "estrangulación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "act of strangling",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "strypning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "strangulation"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-07-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (e79c026 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.