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strangling

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strangle  \Stran"gle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Strangled};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Strangling}.]  [OF.  estrangler,  F.  ['e]trangler,  L. 
  strangulare,  Gr  ?,  ?,  fr  ?  a  halter;  and  perhaps  akin  to  E. 
  string,  n.  Cf  {Strain},  {String}.] 
  1.  To  compress  the  windpipe  of  (a  person  or  animal)  until 
  death  results  from  stoppage  of  respiration;  to  choke  to 
  death  by  compressing  the  throat,  as  with  the  hand  or  a 
  rope. 
 
  Our  Saxon  ancestors  compelled  the  adulteress  to 
  strangle  herself.  --Ayliffe. 
 
  2.  To  stifle,  choke,  or  suffocate  in  any  manner. 
 
  Shall  I  not  then  be  stifled  in  the  vault,  .  .  .  And 
  there  die  strangled  ere  my  Romeo  comes?  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  hinder  from  appearance;  to  stifle;  to  suppress. 
  ``Strangle  such  thoughts.''  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  strangling 
  n  :  the  act  of  suffocating  by  constricting  the  windpipe;  "no 
  evidence  that  the  choking  was  done  by  the  accused"  [syn: 
  {choking},  {strangulation},  {throttling}]




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