strangles
- n an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes
- v kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- 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
- But efforts like Woods' are up against powerful headwinds and not just because of the powerful gun lobby that often strangles gun-control laws.
- Thus the Catholic vision of Mary, says Burghardt, strangles ecumenical dialogue.
- JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL is Director Claude Chabrol's cunningly engineered fable about a man (Michel Bouquet) who strangles his mistress and is slowly enveloped by guilt.