strangling
verb
Meaning
- To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- To stifle or suppress.
- To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- The crime of killing by strangling.
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