Barry Humphries

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

Australian Comedian

Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

American Author

P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

American Comedian

Thandie Newton

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

British Actress

D. H. Lawrence

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

English Writer

Georges Rouault

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

French Artist

Paul Eldridge

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

American Educator

Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Jean Racine

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

French Dramatist

Philip Kearny

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

American Soldier

It's a physical and violent action usually implying a crime.

Violent Act

The word often carries a sense of anger or extreme aggression.

Intense Emotion

Strangling is typically a direct and personal form of attack.

Personal Attack

Used to describe restrictions or limitations, not physical actions.

Metaphorical Use

It implies that the act of preventing is harmful or unwanted.

Negative Connotation

It's often used in economic or business contexts to describe barriers.

Business Context

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 They're controlled by different parts of the brain. So at one point, my brother-in-law gets up the courage to ask the one question he really wants to know the answer to, and that how could you have done it? Didn't you feel any pity for your victims? These were very intimate murders -- he strangled his victims.

Daniel Goleman: Why...

 sleep paralysis regularly and it may be linked to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, many who experience an episode of sleep paralysis do so infrequently, perhaps only once in a lifetime. So you can rest easy, knowing that an evil entity is not trying to haunt, possess, strangle, or suffocate you.

The terrors of sleep...

 neck bones which are there in order to support them when they are feeding so they never get tired and they use again the very same necks for fighting purposes so in other words these kind of next they are very well adapted to face up and for them in order to strangle the

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 features to do certain things don't be surprised if it does it and if you design a school system based on the principles of industrialism and conformity and you strangle it with a culture of standardized testing which bleeds the life out of teachers and

Expanding our definition...

 Maybe because unlike normal, we were basing it on something in real life, or maybe just because we had lost our way. But it had become about using our brain without our eyes, the science without the art. That scientific tether was strangling the scene.

The magic ingredient...

 They literally put nooses on themselves, and then they went off to their jobs, whatever they were. That's not a recipe for a happy life. These people -- in my, symbol-obsessed, twelve year-old imagination -- these people who are strangling themselves

Paper towns and why...

 You know how my ancestors did sit-ins, just so I can sit in a classroom. And all these years, all y'all been doing is strangling the life out of my bank statement,

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 then I might need a little bit of help. Constricting basically means to strangle, to suffocate the life out of prey, and that's how this magnificent animal

Strangled by a Boa...

 she'll be up against the wall and started strangling I cannot breathe it tried to kick me in the testicles he threw me aside and said get in your hat

Strangle

To kill someone by squeezing their throat so they can't breathe.

Often appears as...

To prevent something from happening, growing, or developing.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Violent Act

Intense Emotion

Personal Attack

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