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What does strangle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word strangle? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
  2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
  3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
  4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
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In Wharton's world, other people and the rigid expectations of stratified society conspire to strangle individual happiness.
We now had each other in mutual strangle holds, right arms cocked to punch at full force.
I growled and turned to strangle his scrawny neck, but I quickly remembered I was pinned against the wall.
The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
Then he grasped the greasy neck of the flinching little monarch and proceeded to strangle him.
In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali.

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