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Tamguatlay Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Does the victim of strangulation lose his life

When a person strangles another person, does the victim necessarily have to. die?

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No, strangulation is the act of constricting one of the body's tubes or vessels. You're probably thinking of the windpipe here. It doesn't take long to kill somebody by cutting off their air in that manner, but if the constriction is released in time, the victim can recover.

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  • No, strangulation is the act of constricting one of the body's tubes or vessels.
  • You're probably thinking of the windpipe here.
  • It doesn't take long to kill somebody by cutting off their air in that manner, but if the constriction is released in time, the victim can recover.
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No, strangulation is the act of constricting one of the body's tubes or vessels. You're probably thinking of the windpipe here. It doesn't take long to kill somebody by cutting off their air in that manner, but if the constriction is released in time, the victim can recover.

You may have to judge from the context whether "strangles" means "strangles to death."
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If the context is a crime, then "strangle" means kill - this is similar to the word "stifle": in a crime context it means kill. In a similar vein, the word "body," in a crime context, means a dead body.
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