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strang guh ling

  • n  the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
  • v  kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
    A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes
  • v  conceal or hide
  • v  die from strangulation
  • v  prevent the progress or free movement of
  • v  constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
  • v  struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

  • Last month, they report, Anthony Jacques Broussard bragged to friends about strangling his former girlfriend, and then invited them out to see the body.
  • For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of .
  • Until he was strangling and mutilating his victims, displaying their lopped-off heads in his apartment and sleeping with their corpses until putrefaction made it unbearable.
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  • Grant Shapps in Telegraph.co.uk
    Housing minister Grant Shapps said: "Today the new Government is ensuring that home information packs are history. This is a great example of how we are determined to get straight down to work and cut pointless red tape which is strangling the...
  • Laisenia Qarase in Forbes
    They have strangled the police force - they've neutralized them in terms of arms and ammunition and now they are strangling the government machinery today,Qarase said.
  • M Karunanidhi in Hindu
    When you watch the film those are actually my hands that are on Diane Kruger's throat strangling her. I made a deal with her early on. (I told her) 'We're gonna have to choke you if it's gonna actually work and I don't trust anybody but myself to... Quentin Tarantino http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH8Tp-Gi2iY1MpgBr5P-JBrMqR_2A Hindustan Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Tarantino-almost-strangulated-Diane-Kruger/H1-Article1-500079.aspx&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHNesrwhPW-D0Agu7aS_zgWgEBgxw Jan 21, 2010 95170 126433 strangulate Their perverted statement is nothing but an attempt to strangulate the Tamils who are dying there," Mr. Karunanidhi said.

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