Definition of Strangle

Strangle

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.

To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

To be strangled, or suffocated.

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Strangle Quotations

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!
Adam Sandler

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
Megan Fox

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Jean Racine

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
Brit Hume

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
Robert Staughton Lynd

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
Lea Thompson

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Strangle Translations

strangle in Dutch is choken, worgen, wurgen
strangle in Portuguese is estrangule
strangle in Spanish is estrangular
strangle in Swedish is strypa

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