strangle

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Plain form
strangle

Third-person singular
strangles

Past tense
strangled

Past participle
strangled

Present participle
strangling

A drawing showing a woman being strangled.
  1. (transitive) If you strangle someone, you kill them by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply
    He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.

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