'Strangling' definitions:
Definition of 'strangling'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling]
Definition of 'Strangling'
From: GCIDE
- Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling.] [OF. estrangler, F. ['e]trangler, L. strangulare, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string, n. Cf. Strain, String.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. [1913 Webster]
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strangling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asphyxia,
- asphyxiation,
- beheading,
- burking,
- burning,
- capital punishment,
- censorship,
- choke,
- choking,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- counterproductive,
- crackdown,
- crosswise,
- crucifixion,
- crushing,
- decapitation,
- decollation,
- defenestration,
- drowning,
- electrocution,
- execution,
- extinguishment,
- fusillade,
- garrote,
- gassing,
- hanging,
- hemlock,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- in the way,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- judicial murder,
- killing,
- lapidation,
- liver death,
- megadeath,
- necktie party,
- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- poisoning,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- repression,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- serum death,
- shooting,
- smashing,
- smotheration,
- smothering,
- squashing,
- squelching,
- starvation,
- stifling,
- stoning,
- strangulation,
- subdual,
- suffocating,
- suffocation,
- suppression,
- suppressive,
- the ax,
- the block,
- the chair,
- the gallows,
- the gas chamber,
- the guillotine,
- the hot seat,
- the rope,
- throttling,
- troublesome,
- violent death,
- watery grave