Strangle

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To stifle or suppress an action.
 * She strangled a scream.
 * 1)  To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
 * The cat slipped from the branch and became strangled by its bell-colla.

Adverbs for Strangle
cruelly;   excruciatingly;    demoniacally; fiendishly; deliberately; maniacally; lustfully; sordidly;  horridly;  sensationally; horribly; amorously.

Thesaurus
OD, abbreviate, asphyxiate, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, be killed, behead, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bottle up, bowstring, burke, burn, button, button up, censor, chock, choke, choke off, circumscribe, clamp down on, clap, close, close off, close tight, close up, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contain, contract, cork, cork up, cover, crack down on, cramp, crowd, crucify, crush, curtail, damp down, debar, decapitate, decollate, decrease, defenestrate, deflate, disarm, dog, draw, draw in, draw together, drown, electrocute, enchain, execute, extinguish, famish, fasten, fold, fold up, gag, garrote, guillotine, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hold down, inflict capital punishment, jam, jump on, keep down, keep under, key, kill, knit, knock out, lapidate, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, manacle, muffle, muzzle, narrow, obstruct, occlude, pack, padlock, paralyze, plumb, pour water on, prostrate, pucker, pucker up, purse, put down, put out, put to death, quash, quell, quench, reduce, repress, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shoot, shorten, shush, shut, shut down on, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, silence, sit down on, sit on, slam, smash, smother, snap, snuff out, solidify, squash, squeeze, squeeze shut, squelch, stamp out, stanch, starve, stifle, stone, stop the breath, stop up, strangulate, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, trample out, trample underfoot, truss up, wrinkle, zip up, zipper

Etymology
From estrangler:, from  strangulo:, from  στραγγαλᾶν:, from στραγγάλη:; compare στραγγός:.

Translations

 * Czech: uškrtit
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Hebrew:, חנק למוות
 * Hungarian: megfojt
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: pasmaugti


 * Russian: душить, задушить
 * Scottish Gaelic: tachd, mùch
 * Slovak: zaškrtiť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Russian: подавлять, подавить
 * Swahili:

Related terms

 * strangulate
 * strangulation