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📖 Определения и значения для слова strangle

📒 to kill somebody by pressing their throat and neck hard, especially with your fingers

  • to strangle somebody to death
  • The victim had been strangled with a scarf.
  • Whenever he starts going on about football, I could cheerfully strangle him.

📒 to prevent something from growing or developing

  • The current monetary policy is strangling the economy.
  • ‘Oh, no!’ she cried, strangling a sob.
  • This project should have been strangled at birth.
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