strangle
strang guhl
- v kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
he tried to strangle his opponent - v conceal or hide
strangle a yawn - v die from strangulation
- v prevent the progress or free movement of
the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries - v constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- v struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in .
- Her T shirt had been used to strangle her, and gangster-style graffiti was scrawled on her abdomen in black ink.
- He drew additional gibes by declaring that his wife Evelyn had come to his rescue when the devil visited his bedroom and tried to strangle him.