Hypertext Webster Gateway: "strangle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. i.
To be strangled, or suffocated.
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) 1.7 (wn)
strangle
v : squeeze the throat of; "he tried to strangle his opponent"
[syn: {strangulate}, {throttle}]
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