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• Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.From the entry matricide
• In the motion picture ‘The Godfather’, gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.From the entry take care of
• Police concluded that she had been the victim of a soft kill, since she had been strangled to death.From the entry soft kill
• A dank duochrome prevailed, matte silver and green-black, curled fog strangling the pines.2018, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, A Measure of Darkness. From the entry duochrome
• "If the doctor hadn't been sure she was strangled you'd have sworn she died natural."2005, Leo Bruce, Jack on the Gallows Tree: A Carolus Deene Mystery, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, page 124. From the entry natural
• Then they pull your tongue through the slit and watch as you slowly strangle.1994, Ronald K. Siegel, Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, Crown, →ISBN, page 276, →ISBN. From the entry Colombian necktie
• Then the Father started to laugh but strangled the gay note instantly.1930, Leslie J. Swabacker, Shackles of Flesh, page 14. From the entry nonunderstandingly
• After confessing to the crimes for which she was accused, Agnes Sampson was strangled to death and burned as a witch.2023 April 3, Celeste Larsen, Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Step Into Your Power, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry witch's bridle
• The victims strangled as they performed a twitching death dance.2022 November 30, John Gardiner, A Hitchhiker's Triptych. From the entry dance
• Since she'd been strangled, I decided to give her mouth-to-mouth.2014, William Stadler, Seize the Soul: Confessions of a Summoner, page 160. From the entry mouth-to-mouth
• Ten, fifteen years ago you could rent rooms by the trick, screw, strangle, and be out in twenty.2014, Arthur Nersesian, Gladyss of the Hunt, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry price up
• The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands.2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106. From the entry jerk
• I started to strangle myself when I was sixteen.1995, John M. Grossberg, Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry asphyxiophiliac
• “We strangle the parrot in five minutes.” Kincaid grinned.1990, Kevin D. Randle, chapter 6, in Carrier War (Wings over Nam; 4), Naples, Fla.: Speaking Volumes, published 2014, →ISBN. From the entry strangle the parrot
• Your legs will be long and strong and brown, without the horrible adult deformity of strangled toes or fat-rolled thighs.1964, Frank Smith, Brothers' keepers, page 112. From the entry oversitting
• In one type of vocal dystonia called lingual protrusion dystonia, a person’s tongue can protrude when they try to speak, strangling their words.2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN. From the entry dystonia
• Because the Greeks considered being choked or strangled to be one consequence of a night-mare attack, the entity was also called pnigalion (“throttler”).2011, Shelley R. Adler, Sleep Paralysis, page 41. From the entry pnigalion
• While humanity is growing, they continue fixed; daily get more mechanical and unvital; and by and by tend to strangle what they before preserved.1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects. From the entry unvital
• Aaron yanked at his tie to keep it from strangling him, tried to “eavesread” the paperwork on Stephanie's desk to find any clues to Lizzie's whereabouts.2014, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Truth Be Told, Forge, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry eavesread
• In his inaugural, President Obama proclaimed 'an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics'.2009 March 13, Teddy Davis, ABC News. From the entry inaugural
• Gil was making light of strangling himself with an imaginary clerical collar, saying Dom was a mommie’s boy, but no one could see much in the fog.2005, Stephens Gerard Malone, [chapter 2], in Miss Elva: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, published 2006, →ISBN, part 1 (1927)…. From the entry mommie's boy
• They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, →ISBN. From the entry garrote
• I took a strangle hold on my nervous system and walked into his office on invitation from the pretty little bureaucratess who met me at the door.1943 October 16, Gee McGee, “Nobody’s Business”, in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, S.C., page four, column 2. From the entry bureaucratess
• Benita Bischoff, the 16-year-old daughter of Vivian Gordon, the vice inquiry witness who was found strangled in Van Cortlandt Park, committed suicide in Audubon, N.J., yesterday by inhaling gas.1931 March 4, “Daughter Ends Life over Gordon Murder. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Benita
• "He knocked Loerke down and stunned him, he half strangled me, then he went away." To herself she was saying: "A pretty little sample of the eternal triangle!"1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 31, in Women in Love. From the entry eternal triangle

Meaning of strangle

1. verb To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
2. verb To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
3. verb To stifle or suppress.

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How do you use strangle in a sentence?

Strangle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.”

What is a short sentence with strangle?

“He strangled a scream.”

What does strangle mean?

Strangle means to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.