Strangling Synonyms and Antonyms

Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. throttling
  2. repressing
  3. stifling
  4. muffling
  5. choking
  6. subduing
  7. smothering
Prevent the progress or free movement of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cramping
  2. hampering
The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. choking
  2. strangulation
  3. throttling

Strangling Sentence Examples

  • I was strangling you with demands.

  • His clothes were strangling him in heat after the match.

  • It was the sensation caused in 1884 by the lawsuit brought against Strindberg's Married (a collection of short stories dealing realistically with some of the seamy sides of marriage) which brought to a head the rebellion against the elegant and superficial conventions which were strangling Swedish literature.

  • Cut back and remove undergrowth that is strangling an area of bluebells.

  • His conduct towards the remains of Formosus, his last predecessor but one (see FoRMosus) excited a tumult, which ended in his imprisonment and death by strangling.

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