Stricture vs Strangling - What's the difference?
stricture | strangling | Related terms |
(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
a sternly critical remark or review
(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(obsolete) strictness
(obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
Stricture is a related term of strangling.
As nouns the difference between stricture and strangling
is that stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action while strangling is the crime of killing by strangling.As a verb strangling is
.stricture
English
Noun
(en noun)- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.