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- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- constrict (someone''s) throat and keep from breathing
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- die from strangulation
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one''s anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- 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"
Similar Words: gag,
choke,
suffocate,
hamper,
halter,
cramp,
smother,
stifle,
muffle,
repress,
strangulate,
throttle
Hyponyms: garrote,
garrotte,
garotte,
scrag
Entailments: compress,
constrict,
squeeze,
compact,
contract,
press
Derivational Morphology:
suffocation,
asphyxiation,
choking,
strangulation,
strangling,
throttling,
shackle,
bond,
hamper,
trammel,
trammels,
stifler,
smotherer,
suppression,
crushing,
quelling,
stifling,
garroter,
garrotter,
strangler,
throttler,
choker,
strangler tree
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