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v. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.

v. To cut off the oxygen supply of; smother.

v. To suppress, repress, or stifle: strangle a scream.

v. To inhibit the growth or action of; restrict: "That artist is strangled who is forced to deal with human beings solely in social terms” ( James Baldwin).

verb-intransitive. To become strangled.

verb-intransitive. To die from suffocation or strangulation; choke.

v. To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

v. To stifle or suppress an action.

v. To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

v. 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.

v. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

v. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

verb-intransitive. To be strangled, or suffocated.

To choke by compression of the windpipe; kill by choking; throttle.

To suppress; keep from emergence or appearance; stifle.

To suffocate by drowning. Defoe.

To be choked or strangled.

n. Strangulation.

n. plural An infectious catarrh of the upper air-passages, especially the nasal cavity, of the horse, ass, and mule, associated with suppuration of the submaxillary and other lymphatic glands.

n. In wrestling, a hold by which the wrestler's breathing is hampered.

v. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

v. prevent the progress or free movement of

v. die from strangulation

v. constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

v. conceal or hide

v. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

"Midway through the session, one large trader pursued a "strangle" -- buying November $105 calls and November $60 puts."

strangled    strangles    strangling   

hurt    suffer    limit    throttle    trammel    restrain    bound    restrict    confine    suffocate   

suffocate    choke    asphyxiate   

strangulation    strangulate   

stifle    suppress   

Angle    Wrangell    angle    bangle    dangle    disentangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    mangle   

vise-like    drie    sailorman    conceipt    wooly    two-hand    reverser    white-knuckled    ttle    72-hour