Synonyms for strangle
Definitions
- v. 1
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
- v. 2
To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
- v. 3
To stifle or suppress.
- v. 4
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
Related words
Forms
- Past participle
- strangled
e.g. strangled → stifled, smother'd, suppressed, muffled…
Example sentences
- suppress It was very hard for her to suppress her emotions.
- stifle Sami stuffed a bag inside Layla's mouth to stifle her.
- smother My sister likes to smother her toasts in butter.
- muffle Sami used a pillow to muffle the sound of his gun.
- choke Many old people choke to death while eating mochi.
- suffocate The US tried to suffocate Cuba's communist economy.
By length
- 3 letters
- gag1
- 5 letters
- burke1, choke1, cramp1, wring1, scrag
- 6 letters
- hamper2, subdue2, stifle2, halter2, muffle2
- 7 letters
- smother2, repress2, garrote, garotte
- 8 letters
- suppress2, throttle2, garrotte
- 9 letters
- suffocate3
- 11 letters
- strangulate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hamper2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- étrangler
- Italiano
- strangolare
- Español
- estrangular
- Deutsch
- würgen