stran|gle

stran|gle
stran|gle «STRANG guhl», verb, -gled, -gling, noun.
–v.t.
1. to kill by squeezing the throat to stop the breath: »

Hercules strangled a snake with each hand.

2. to choke; suffocate: »

His high collar seemed to be strangling him.

SYNONYM(S): throttle, stifle.
3. Figurative. to choke down; suppress; keep back: »

to strangle a yawn, to strangle a nation's economy by too many taxes. He strangled an impulse to cough.

–v.i.
to be strangled; choke: »

She almost strangled on a piece of meat that caught in her throat.

–n. strangles,
an acute, infectious disease as of horses and mules caused by a bacterium, and characterized by fever and inflammation of the mucous membranes.
╂[< Old French estrangler < Latin strangulāre. Compare etym. under strangulate. (Cf. ↑strangulate)]
–stran´gler, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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