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say it: STRANG-guhl
strangle is a verb meaning "kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air". It carries 6 recorded senses.
kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
“he tried to strangulate his opponent”
“A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes”
suppress in order to conceal or hide
“smother a yawn”
“muffle one's anger”
“strangle a laugh”
“repress a cry of fear”
die from strangulation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strangle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.