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Meaning of strangle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  strangle
      v 1: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air;
           "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has
           been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn:
           {strangle}, {strangulate}, {throttle}]
      2: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger";
         "strangle a yawn" [syn: {smother}, {stifle}, {strangle},
         {muffle}, {repress}]
      3: die from strangulation
      4: prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in
         his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation
         wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small
         countries" [syn: {hamper}, {halter}, {cramp}, {strangle}]
      5: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing [syn:
         {choke}, {strangle}]
      6: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he
         swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: {gag}, {choke},
         {strangle}, {suffocate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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