To strangle; to worry.

transitive. To choke, suffocate; to block up, obstruct.

To strangle, suffocate.

transitive. To kill by external compression of the throat, esp. by means of a rope or the like passed round the neck.

transitive. To kill (a person or animal) by compressing the throat; to strangle. Obsolete.

transitive. To suffocate by external compression of the throat; to throttle, strangle; to produce a sensation of strangling.

To tire the patience of; to affect with tedium or ennui; to satiate (with). Also with out.

transitive. To choke, strangle. Also, to snare, entrap.

To throttle, strangle.

transitive. To strangle.

transitive. To strangle, suffocate. Obsolete.

transitive. To asphyxiate (a person or animal); to choke, suffocate, stifle; esp. to attack or kill (a person or animal) by compressing or…

transitive. = strangle, v. to choke.

To choke by compressing the windpipe; to strangle, throttle. Obsolete.

transitive. To catch in a snare or noose; to entangle or secure with a cord, rope, etc.; to strangle. Now dialect.

transitive. To throttle, strangle.

transitive and intransitive. To choke (a person).

transitive. To strangle with a bow-string.

To wring the neck of; also, to garrotte.

To prevent respiration in (a person) by constriction of the trachea; = strangle, v. rare.

transitive. slang (originally Boxing). To strike (a person) in the face; to fight, beat up, assault; to strangle. Also intransitive.

to screw a person's neck: to strangle a person. Also to screw an animal's neck: to kill an animal by twisting or wringing its neck.

transferred and figurative. To strangle.

transitive. To seize by the throat, choke, throttle; to strangle, kill. (Cf. guzzle, n. 4) slang and dialect.

to screw a person's neck: to strangle a person. Also to screw an animal's neck: to kill an animal by twisting or wringing its neck.