Strangle
['stræŋg(ə)l] or ['stræŋɡl]
Definition
(verb.) die from strangulation.
(verb.) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; 'he tried to strangle his opponent'; 'A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes'.
Checker: Thomas--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
(v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
(v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
(v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Choke, throttle, suffocate.
Checker: Sylvia
Definition
v.t. to compress the throat so as to prevent breathing and destroy life: to choke: to hinder from birth or appearance: to suppress.—n. Strang′ler.—n.pl. Strang′les a contagious eruptive disorder peculiar to young horses.—n. Strang′le-weed the dodder the broom-rape.—v.t. Strang′ulate to strangle: to compress so as to suppress or suspend function.—p.adj. Strang′ulated having the function stopped by compression: constricted much narrowed.—n. Strangulā′tion act of strangling: compression of the throat and partial suffocation: the state of a part abnormally constricted.
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Examples
- If I sit here thinking of him, snarls the old man, holding up his impotent ten fingers, I want to strangle him now. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I shall die of 'em, if Jeremiah don't strangle me first. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Margaret's heart ached at his restlessness--his trying to stifle and strangle the hideous fear that was looming out of the dark places of his heart. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Listen to me, who with six words, can strangle Sikes as surely as if I had his bull's throat between my fingers now. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You have refused to marry me, he cried in a strangled voice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She could not bear it, she wanted to have the woman taken out at once and strangled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I would sooner have strangled him than had no return. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You know as well as I that he would have strangled the suit if he could. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If a look could have strangled Tartar, he would have breathed no more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I never was more nearly strangled in my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His eyes rolled in his head; I was strangling him, I think. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But the dazzling whiteness seemed to beat upon her till it hurt her, she felt the cold was slowly strangling her soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am strangling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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