strangle
pronunciation
How to pronounce strangle in British English:
UK [ˈstræŋɡl]
How to pronounce strangle in American English:
US [ˈstræŋɡl]
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- Verb:
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- conceal or hide
- die from strangulation
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
Word Origin
- strangle
- strangle: [13] Strangle comes via Old French estrangler and Latin strangulāre from Greek straggalān ‘strangle’. This was related to straggós ‘twisted’, and has more distant links with English string and strong – the common semantic denominator being ‘stiffness, tautness’.=> string, strong
- strangle (v.)
- late 13c., from Old French estrangler "choke, suffocate, throttle" (Modern French étrangler), from Latin strangulare "to choke, stifle, check, constrain," from Greek strangalan "to choke, twist," from strangale "a halter, cord, lace," related to strangos "twisted," from PIE root *strenk- "tight, narrow; pull tight, twist" (see string (n.)). Related: Strangled; strangling.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It will strangle the city 's vitality .
- 2. The fiscal pact must not " strangle " weak economies , mr monti said .
- 3. A 3-year-old you can easily strangle or overdose .
- 4. Ungern was an obnoxious child ; he tried to strangle a neighbour 's pet owl and was expelled from school .
- 5. Indeed , right now the authoritarians look more likely to strangle egypt 's democracy than the islamists do .