1. strangle - Noun
2. strangle - Verb
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.
To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
To be strangled, or suffocated.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings. Denis Diderot
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anaïs Nin
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. Jean Racine
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother. Denis Diderot
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. Oscar Wilde
Coward, strangle your fear, or else you will strangle yourself. African Proverb