strangle

Speech parts

1. strangle - Noun

2. strangle - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

suffocate throttle gag choke hamper repress stifle halter muffle smother cramp strangulate burke contain contract
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Antonyms

air free evidence open release evince
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Hypernyms

press suffocate trammel limit contract kill

Hyponyms

garrote scrag garotte garrotte

Phrases with the word

strangle grass strangle kelp strangle tare going to strangle

Derivatives

strangled strangling

Anagrams

Stangler

Examples

And 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

Close letter words and terms

strangify Strangio Strangite strangle grass strangle kelp strangle tare