Strangulate vs Strangled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between strangulate and strangled

is that strangulate is (medicine) to stop flow through a vessel while strangled is (strangle).

(strangulat)

(medicine) To stop flow through a vessel.

To strangle.

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(head)

(strangle)

(strangl)

To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.

To stifle or suppress an action.

She strangled a scream.

To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.

To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

* Shakespeare

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

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