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Strangle

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.

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Broader term 21

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Asphyxiate 76% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Compact 76% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Compress 76% connected

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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Confine 76% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Constrict 76% connected

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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Contract 76% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Inhibit 76% connected

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Restrict 76% connected

Restricted.

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Squeeze 76% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Suppress 76% connected

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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Throttle 76% connected

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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Trammel 76% connected

A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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Manner of action 2

Garrote 76% connected

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the ins…

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Scrag 76% connected

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

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Derivationally related 10

Stifler 74% connected

One who, or that which, stifles.

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Stifler 74% connected

One who, or that which, stifles.

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Strangler 74% connected

One who, or that which, strangles.

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Strangler 74% connected

One who, or that which, strangles.

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Strangulation 74% connected

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

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Strangulation 74% connected

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

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Throttler 74% connected

One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

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Throttler 74% connected

One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

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Causes 1

Choke 72% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Entails 6

Compact 72% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Compress 72% connected

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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Constrict 72% connected

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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Contract 72% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Press 72% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Squeeze 72% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Synonym 12

Choke 92% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cramp 92% connected

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gag 92% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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Halter 92% connected

One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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Hamper 92% connected

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

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Muffle 92% connected

The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Repress 92% connected

To press again.

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Smother 92% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stifle 92% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strangulate 92% connected

Strangulated.

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Suffocate 92% connected

Suffocated; choked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Throttle 92% connected

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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