THESAURUS
strangulation
abbreviation, abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, asphyxia, asphyxiation, astriction, astringency, bar, barrier, beheading, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, burking, burning, capital punishment, cecum, cervix, choke, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, congestion, consolidation, constipation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, costiveness, crucifixion, cul-de-sac, curtailment, dead end, decapitation, decollation, decrease, defenestration, deracination, diminuendo, drowning, electrocution, elimination, embolism, embolus, eradication, execution, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fusillade, garrote, gassing, gorge, hanging, hemlock, hourglass, hourglass figure, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, isthmus, jam, judicial murder, killing, knitting, lapidation, liquidation, liver death, megadeath, narrow place, narrowing, neck, necktie party, negation, nullification, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, poisoning, puckering, purge, pursing, reduction, rooting out, sealing off, serum death, shooting, shortening, silencing, smotheration, smothering, snuffing out, solidification, starvation, stifling, stoning, stop, stoppage, stranglement, strangling, striction, stricture, suffocation, suppression, systole, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, throttling, uprooting, violent death, voiding, wasp waist, watery grave, wrinkling
ROGET THESAURUS
strangulation
Contraction
N
contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing,
strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).
Killing
N
killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation,
strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
