stranglestran‧gle /ˈstræŋɡəl/ verb [transitive] 
Word Origin Examples
The victim had been strangled with a belt.2to limit or prevent the growth or development of something: Mills argues that high taxation strangles the economy.—strangler noun [countable]
Word OriginWORD ORIGINstrangle
Verb TableOrigin:
1200-1300 Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulare; ➔ STRANGULATIONVERB TABLE
strangle
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | strangle |
| he, she, it | strangles | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | strangled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have strangled |
| he, she, it | has strangled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had strangled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will strangle |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have strangled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am strangling |
| he, she, it | is strangling | |
| you, we, they | are strangling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was strangling |
| you, we, they | were strangling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been strangling |
| he, she, it | has been strangling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been strangling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be strangling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been strangling |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Freitas was strangled with a nylon cord.
- He slid his hands around her neck and tried to strangle her.
- Police said that the victim had been strangled.
- The economy is being strangled by inefficiency and corruption.
- And then I strangled all their grannies.
- Doctor Horatio Holliday has been found strangled to death in his home, slumped over his dining room table.
- Hercules lifted him up and holding him in the air strangled him.
- Piotr Jaroszewicz, 83, had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured.
- The place was strangling her like a shrieking accusing prophet.
- They say he strangled an entire pack of Wolf Cubs and fed their bodies to a school of carp?
Longman Language Activatorto kill someone► kill
Collocations to make someone die, especially deliberately or violently: · He claims that he didn't mean to kill his wife.· The police believe the man may kill again.· What the hell were you doing! You could have killed me!· Official sources say that 20 people were killed in last night's air raids.· My sixteen-year-old son Louis was killed by a drunk driver two years ago.
► murder to deliberately kill someone, especially after planning to do it: · Wilson is accused of murdering his daughter and her boyfriend.· One of the country's top judges has been murdered by the Mafia.
► assassinate to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons: · President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.· an attempt to assassinate the Pope
► beat/kick/stab etc somebody to death to kill someone by beating them, kicking them, or attacking them with a knife: · The court heard how the man was beaten to death by racist thugs.· A social worker was found stabbed to death in her office last night.· Smith had apparently been kicked to death.
► poison to kill someone by putting a very harmful substance in their food or drink: · He believed that somebody was trying to poison him.· She had already poisoned three members of her own family with arsenic.
► drown to kill someone by holding their face under water for a long time: · He accused his brother of trying to drown him.
► strangle to kill someone by pressing on their throat with both hands or with something such as a piece of string so that they cannot breathe: · Police said that the victim had been strangled.· He slid his hands around her neck and tried to strangle her.
► bump off informal to kill someone - often used humorously: bump off somebody/bump somebody off: · He kept marrying rich women and then bumping them off.have somebody bumped off (=arrange for someone to be killed): · His uncle decided to have him bumped off.
► do away with informal to kill someone, especially because they are a threat or their death would be convenient: · Perhaps his wife had taken the opportunity to do away with her rival.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a strangled/stifled cry
1to kill someone by pressing their throat with your hands, a rope etc → chokestrangle with (=that stops before it is finished)· The girl gave a stifled cry of disappointment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► death· Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death.· Doctor Horatio Holliday has been found strangled to death in his home, slumped over his dining room table.· We will be slowly strangled to death.· The other strangled himself to death out of shame.
VERB► try· He said his father had tried to strangle him thirty or forty times or more.· Mahmud was trying to strangle Sheikh.· It also claims that McLean tried to strangle her.
The victim had been strangled with a belt.2to limit or prevent the growth or development of something: Mills argues that high taxation strangles the economy.—strangler noun [countable]