2syllables
strangling
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Definitions ofstrangling
1verb
- To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
Example: "He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid."
- To stifle or suppress.
Example: "She strangled a scream."
- To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
Example: "The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar."
- To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
1noun
- The crime of killing by strangling.
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