strangling
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.