strangle

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Algernon had one inclination to strangle, and another to mollify the wretch.

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  1. transitive verb To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
  2. transitive verb To cut off the oxygen supply of; smother.
  3. transitive verb To suppress, repress, or stifle: strangle a scream.
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  • Ham gave way suddenly to his overpowering urge to strangle, and rolled wildly, clenching at his throat. —  067 - The Red Terrors
  • His left arm flipped with electric speed around the head of the thing, securing what a wrestler would call a strangle hold Doc's legs kicked powerfully. —  001 - The Man of Bronze
  • You know: Israelis who have nothing better to do than "strangle" Gaza for no reasons anyone can possibly comprehend. —  Expat Yank
  • '' If you strangle, then smother, your TV in this country, do you go to jail? '' wrote the apoplectic Tim Goodman of the —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Choke off, strangle, kill the last bit of relevance you carried in the market. —  Boston.com Most Popular
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  1. Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulāre, from Greek strangalan, from strangalē, halter.

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  1. from Middle English strangelen, from Old French estrangler, French étrangler = Spanish Portuguese estrangular = Italian srangolare, strangulare, from Latin strangulare, from Greek στραγγαλᾱν, στραγγαλίζειν, strangle, from στραγγάλη, a halter, cf. στραγγός, twisted, from *στράγγειν, draw tight, squeeze; cf. Latin stringere, draw tight: see strain, stringent.
  2. from Middle English strangle; from strangle, v.
 

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