Strangle /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Strangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling

1. 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.

   Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.

2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

   Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

1. To be strangled, or suffocated.