All strangle synonyms

verb strangle

• corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
• wring — to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
• burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
• dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• offed — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• constipate — to cause constipation in
• garotte — to execute by the garrote.
• burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• garotted — to execute by the garrote.
• constipating — to cause constipation in; make costive.
• garotting — to execute by the garrote.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• dust off — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
• crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
• burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
• corking — excellent
• gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
• wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
• gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
• astringe — to contract or become contracted
• garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• clam up — If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets.
• astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• iced — of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• offing — the state or fact of being off.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.