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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: strangle (0.01125 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to strangle.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: strangle
memujut, memujutkan, mencekik, mencekikkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: strangle
strangle
v 1: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air;
“he tried to strangle his opponent”;
“A man in Boston
has been strangling several dozen prostitutes” [syn:
strangulate,
throttle]
2: conceal or hide;
“smother a yawn”;
“muffle one's anger”;
“strangle a yawn” [syn:
smother,
stifle,
muffle,
repress]
3: die from strangulation
4: prevent the progress or free movement of;
“He was hampered
in his efforts by the bad weather”;
“the imperilist nation
wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small
countries” [syn:
hamper,
halter,
cramp]
5: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing [syn:
choke]
6: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake;
“he
swallowed a fishbone and gagged” [syn:
gag,
choke,
suffocate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Strangle
Strangle
\Stran"gle\, v. i.
To be strangled, or suffocated.
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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.
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Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to
strangle herself. --Ayliffe.
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2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
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Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak.
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3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
“Strangle such thoughts.” --Shak.
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