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Squeeze the throat of
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strangling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To compress the windpipe of (a ...
WordNet
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n. the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking , strangulation , throttling ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The crime of killing by strangling. vb. (present participle of strangle English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging may cause ...
Usage examples of strangling.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.