Synonyms for strangle
ˈstræŋ gəlstran·gle

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1. strangle, strangulate, throttleverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   cramp, muffle, halter, trammel, gag, confine, strangulate, throttle, restrain, hamper, repress, suffocate, smother, choke, restrict, stifle, limit, bound

2. smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repressverb

   conceal or hide

   "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

   Synonyms:
   keep down, cramp, muffle, surround, quash, halter, suppress, asphyxiate, subjugate, gag, mute, strangulate, throttle, reduce, hamper, repress, put out, damp, suffocate, dull, smother, choke, stifle, dampen, tone down, subdue

3. strangleverb

   die from strangulation

   Synonyms:
   halter, stifle, choke, cramp, gag, hamper, suffocate, throttle, repress, smother, strangulate, muffle

4. hamper, halter, cramp, strangleverb

   prevent the progress or free movement of

   "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

   Synonyms:
   halter, smother, suffocate, choke, cramp, gag, stifle, hamper, throttle, repress, handicap, hinder, strangulate, muffle

5. choke, strangleverb

   constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, halter, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, strangulate, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, hamper, go, pass, choke off, cramp, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, stifle

6. gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb

   struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

   "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, pop off, gag, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, halter, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, strangulate, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, quip, hamper, go, heave, pass, choke off, cramp, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, retch, stifle

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1. • Constrict
   • Restrict
   • Suffer
   • Suffocate

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1. choke (verb)

   stop breathing by obstruction of one’s trachea

   the guy choked the assailant with a scarf

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. strangleverb

   Synonyms:
   choke, throttle, suffocate

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1. strangleverb

   Synonyms:
   choke, throttle, suffocate, stifle, suppress, garrote

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1. List of paraphrases for "strangle":

   choke, stifle, suffocate, smother

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1. Vladimir Lenin:

   You need to hang … at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers … This needs to be accomplished in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out : let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.

2. Amy Sakho:

   They leave the infants out in the middle of the forest to starve to death or get eaten by wild animals, others strangle them or throw them in the septic tank.

3. Hubert Humphrey:

   The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

4. Anais Nin:

   Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

5. United States:

   Survivors of the camps have described their experiences as a deliberate attempt by Beijing to strangle Muslim Uyghur culture and stamp out the Muslim faith.