vi to be strangled, or suffocated.
2. strangle ·vt to stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
3. strangle ·vt to hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
4. 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.