·vi To be strangled, or suffocated.
II. Strangle ·vt To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
III. Strangle ·vt To hinder from appearance; to Stifle; to Suppress.
IV. Strangle ·vt To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.