Strangle
Strangle , transitive verb
[Old French estrangler, French étrangler, Latin strangulare, Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} a halter; and perhaps akin to English string, n. Compare 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.
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?
3.
To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Strangle such thoughts.
Strangle , intransitive verb
To be strangled, or suffocated.