Dictionary Entry
strangle
strangle is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
- 3transitive verb
To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
- 4intransitive verb
To be strangled, or suffocated.
- 5verb
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- 6verb
constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
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- 7verb
prevent the progress or free movement of
"He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"
"the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- 8verb
die from strangulation
- 9verb
conceal or hide
"smother a yawn"
"muffle one's anger"
- 10verb
kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
"he tried to strangle his opponent"
"A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
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