strangulate


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Synonyms for strangulate

kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air

become constricted

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"This is not helpful to anyone - if you live in Durham City it will strangulate it."
While this kind of behaviour is a blatant violation of human rights, imprisonments in GB are also increasing day by day which many residents conceive as a part of an effort to suppress the dissent and strangulate the voices raised for our basic rights.
She was taken away from her home by a couple, who called themselves her relatives, and later they tried to strangulate her.
Either they strangulate emotion into the cinematic equivalent of catatonia (The Myth of Fingerprints) or they shovel on the family eccentricity with a forklift (Home for the Holidays), celebrating the very craziness that sent them fleeing in terror from the nest and into ridiculously expensive film schools.
"A quarrel had erupted between the couple on April 29 which later turned violent and Bhola allegedly became furious and tried to strangulate her.