Strangle
verb
To kill someone by squeezing their throat so they can't breathe.
The killer had tried to strangle her with a rope.
Often appears as...
- strangle to death
- strangle with a rope
verb
To prevent something from happening, growing, or developing.
High taxes were strangling trade.
Often appears as...
- strangle trade
- strangle innovation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
verb
To kill someone by squeezing their throat so they can't breathe.
The killer had tried to strangle her with a rope.
Often appears as...
- strangle to death
- strangle with a rope
verb
To prevent something from happening, growing, or developing.
High taxes were strangling trade.
Often appears as...
- strangle trade
- strangle innovation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Violent Act
It's a physical and violent action usually implying a crime.
During the investigation, it was clear the victim was strangled.
Pro Tip 2/3Intense Emotion
The word often carries a sense of anger or extreme aggression.
In the movie, the criminal strangled his foe in rage.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Attack
Strangling is typically a direct and personal form of attack.
He was attacked from behind and nearly strangled.
Pro Tip 1/3Violent Act
It's a physical and violent action usually implying a crime.
During the investigation, it was clear the victim was strangled.
Pro Tip 2/3Intense Emotion
The word often carries a sense of anger or extreme aggression.
In the movie, the criminal strangled his foe in rage.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Attack
Strangling is typically a direct and personal form of attack.
He was attacked from behind and nearly strangled.
Pro Tip 1/3Violent Act
It's a physical and violent action usually implying a crime.
During the investigation, it was clear the victim was strangled.
Pro Tip 2/3Intense Emotion
The word often carries a sense of anger or extreme aggression.
In the movie, the criminal strangled his foe in rage.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Attack
Strangling is typically a direct and personal form of attack.
He was attacked from behind and nearly strangled.
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Safari Live - Day 27 PIPE...
starts to grow in these aerial roots start to grow down all the way along the trunk of the lead word and you use it as a support structure and over time more and more and more roots grow and eventually they'll encompass that whole led word go right beyond the lead words crown and they'll actually suffocate the tree art or strangle it and have stop it from getting sunshine and nutrients and they
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Daniel Goleman: Why...
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.
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The terrors of sleep...
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.
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Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
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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Expanding our definition...
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
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The magic ingredient...
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.
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Paper towns and why...
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
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Poetic Stickup: Put the...
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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Strangled by a Boa...
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
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
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
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 27 PIPE...
starts to grow in these aerial roots start to grow down all the way along the trunk of the lead word and you use it as a support structure and over time more and more and more roots grow and eventually they'll encompass that whole led word go right beyond the lead words crown and they'll actually suffocate the tree art or strangle it and have stop it from getting sunshine and nutrients and they
Video examples
Daniel Goleman: Why...
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.
Video examples
The terrors of sleep...
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.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
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
Video examples
Expanding our definition...
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
Video examples
The magic ingredient...
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.
Video examples
Paper towns and why...
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
Video examples
Poetic Stickup: Put the...
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,
Video examples
Strangled by a Boa...
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
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
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
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Barry Humphries
Australian Comedian
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.
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Anais Nin
American Author
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.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
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.
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Thandie Newton
British Actress
I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!
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D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
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.
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Georges Rouault
French Artist
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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Paul Eldridge
American Educator
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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Jean Toomer
American Author
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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Jean Racine
French Dramatist
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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Philip Kearny
American Soldier
War is horrible because it strangles youth.
Quote examples
Barry Humphries
Australian Comedian
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.
Quote examples
Anais Nin
American Author
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.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
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.
Quote examples
Thandie Newton
British Actress
I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!
Quote examples
D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
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.
Quote examples
Georges Rouault
French Artist
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Quote examples
Paul Eldridge
American Educator
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Quote examples
Jean Toomer
American Author
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
Quote examples
Jean Racine
French Dramatist
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Quote examples
Philip Kearny
American Soldier
War is horrible because it strangles youth.
Example 1 of 10
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