strangleverb [ T ]
uk/ˈstræŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈstræŋ.ɡəl/to kill someone by pressing their throat so that they cannot breathe:
She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods.
to stop something from developing:
For years, the organization was strangled by excessive bureaucracy.
There is a great deal of fear that the new restrictions might strangle the country's economy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- shoot sb down
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- throttle
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Idiom(s)
strangle sth at birth