Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To kill by cutting the jugular vein; cut the throat of.
- To arrest suddenly, as the progress of a disease, by therapeutic measures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To cut the throat of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cut the
throat of aperson or ananimal .
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Examples
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But what Louis did was this: he showed by a strict analysis of numerous cases that bleeding did not strangle, -- jugulate was the word then used, -- acute diseases, more especially pneumonia.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But what Louis did was this: he showed by a strict analysis of numerous cases that bleeding did not strangle, -- jugulate was the word then used, -- acute diseases, more especially pneumonia.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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