STRANGLE
strangle
Verb
- 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.
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