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as in to choke
to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air
the gull got tangled in a piece of fishing line on the beach and was strangled
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as in to stifle
to refrain from openly showing or uttering
strangled a gasp of surprise upon hearing the news
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Recent Examples of strangle
Only 16, her life thrown away, strangled, wrapped in a rug, and buried in cement.
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Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
Defense says his ‘courage’ helped others Nov. 1, 2024
The 30-year-old Neely, who was Black, sometimes entertained passersby with Michael Jackson impersonations but also struggled with depression, schizophrenia and drug use after his mother was strangled during his teen years.
—Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Two 27-year-old roommates were found strangled to death in their east Phoenix home on Dec. 3, 2010.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2024
The 6-year-old beauty pageant star had been strangled to death, leaving a community shaken and spawning decades of theories, accusations, and media speculation that often cast suspicion on the family themselves.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2024
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Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
Defense says his ‘courage’ helped others Nov. 1, 2024
The 30-year-old Neely, who was Black, sometimes entertained passersby with Michael Jackson impersonations but also struggled with depression, schizophrenia and drug use after his mother was strangled during his teen years.
—Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Two 27-year-old roommates were found strangled to death in their east Phoenix home on Dec. 3, 2010.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2024
The 6-year-old beauty pageant star had been strangled to death, leaving a community shaken and spawning decades of theories, accusations, and media speculation that often cast suspicion on the family themselves.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangle
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Are the older kids' toys, which could be choking hazards, out of reach of a young baby or toddler?Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Dec. 2024
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The police chief added that 911 dispatchers are trained to talk children through difficult situations, including parents choking, CPR, and even giving birth.Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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Bureaucracy has also stifled innovation even when its military utility is obvious.Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
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Leaders who avoid conflict breed mediocrity and stifle innovation and creativity.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Fantasmas is the other side of the coin of someone who has access to all the colors, but realizes that that feels suffocating somehow.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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Syria is a country where sectarian and social divides have been reinforced by war, and where the one common denominator was raw fear of a state whose suffocating security apparatus turned institutions into instruments of terror and abuse.Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
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Harry is doing his best to keep Dexter from killing people, though Dex acknowledges that slicing into cadavers and taking hunting trips aren’t really cutting it in terms of suppressing his urges.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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His beautiful, distant mother, played by the French-Argentinean actress Bérénice Bejo, treats these outbursts as insurrections to be suppressed.Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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Golden State smothered Minnesota to start the final quarter, holding the Wolves to one point in four minutes.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Nothing says Christmas quite like a pecan waffle and smothered hash browns.Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
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In a game where a D-man on the other side put up two, seeing the team’s two most skilled defencemen finish with zero shots each and losing their minutes at five-on-five is a tough pill to swallow.Omar White, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
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The Huskies were also swallowed up on the boards, getting out-rebounded 25-16 in the first half and allowing 11 second-chance points to the Irish.Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
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These headphones will drown all that out and give you bliss.Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
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Doka has spent his childhood playing on land that would have been drowned by the Orme Reservoir, building forts in the woods, jumping over irrigation ditches and playing with his cousins.Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Strangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangle. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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