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Strangle   /strˈæŋgəl/   Listen
verb
Strangle  v. t.  (past & past part. strangled; pres. part. strangling)  
1.
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. "Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself."
2.
To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. "Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,... And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?"
3.
To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts."



Strangle  v. i.  To be strangled, or suffocated.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Strangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... to name Obias, had him in sore hate, and many a time strove to strangle him; and when Amis found that, he called to him two of his sergeants, Azones and Horatus by name, and said to them: "Take me out of the hands of this evil woman, and take my hanap privily and bear me to the Castle ...
— Old French Romances • William Morris

... hasn't ever come before," Marg replied, keeping her eyes on Nella-Rose. "There be times when you have to take your life by the throat and strangle it until it falls into ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... and his son Henry, a high-spirited youth, who had greatly distinguished himself against the Slavi, ere long quarrelled with the aged bishop Hatto. According to the legendary account, the bishop sent him a golden chain so skilfully contrived as to strangle its wearer. The truth is that the ancient family feud between the house of Conrad and that of Otto, which was connected with the Babenbergers, again broke out, and that the Emperor attempted again to separate Thuringia, which Otto had governed since the death ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various

... himself carried, cast toward her by a strong impulse of his heart and body. He would have liked to squeeze her, strangle her, eat her, make her part of himself. And he trembled with impotence, impatience, rage, to think she did not belong to him entirely, as ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... strangle him with one hand. I shall simply hold him by the throat while Sydney gags him, you tie his hands, and the Duke his feet. We shall do it any day or hour that you give ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.


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