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 strangle ['stræŋgl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 勒死, 扼死, 压制, 使窒息, 抑制

vi. 被扼死, 被绞死, 窒息而死

[医] 绞窄, 使窒息




    strangle


    Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. i.
    To be strangled, or suffocated.


    Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strangled}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Strangling}.] [OF. estrangler, F. ['e]trangler, L.
    strangulare, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to E.
    string, n. Cf. {Strain}, {String}.]
    1. 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.

    Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to
    strangle herself. --Ayliffe.

    2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

    Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
    And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak.

    3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
    ``Strangle such thoughts.'' --Shak.

    1. "I want to strangle the kid, I want to hang the kid, I want to suffocate the kid," a court affidavit quoted Depew as saying about his plans for the child.
    2. But I think it's sometimes safer not to give the individual something they could strangle themselves with." A different picture was described by a doctor who worked in the jail from April 1987 to August 1988.
    3. Since the credit crunch and overbuilding combined to strangle the market, the real estate market has been at a complete standstill.
    4. A judge's decision to reunite two girls with their father three years after they watched him strangle their mother has touched off a new custody fight and public outrage against the judge.
    5. They would ingratiate themselves with travelers, then strangle them with a noose or handkerchief to plunder their belongings.
    6. Israelis didn't take Higgins prisoner in February of 1988, nor did Israelis cruelly string him up and strangle him.
    7. "You strangle the guys with a 'down 4' in Reynolds, and it makes them run for cover," said one takeover-stock player.
    8. Harry Fluke of Alexandria, Va., was trading naked puts and calls in an arcane strategy known as a "strangle" when the market wiped out the $54,000 in his account.
    9. Still, Spain's Solans expressed dismay at the lack of international progress in stiffening the monitoring of the cash flows of major banks in the world to try to strangle the money laundering activities of drug traffickers.
    10. 'Occupation of those mountains (Igman and Bjelasnica) is a critical element of the Serbs' ability to strangle Sarajevo,' a spokesman said.
    11. A death row inmate has told authorities he helped strangle a fellow convict with a jump rope in a prison recreation yard, a sheriff's department spokesman says.
    12. "It should be self-evident to everyone that the Swedish Academy firmly repudiates every effort to strangle free speech," the statement said.
    13. Now that all Latin American nations have democratically elected governments, the Bush administration has said it is time for them to move away from state-controlled economies with bloated bureaucracies that strangle private enterprise.
    14. Saddam has said he would rather go to war than let the U.N.-ordered embargo "strangle" his country.
    15. Incensed at Saddam's flagrant invasion of his tiny neighbor last Thursday, the United States succeeded in gaining unprecedented international support for a campaign to strangle Iraq's limping economy.
    16. "He threw things at me, spit at me and tried to strangle me once," she said during the lunch break.
    17. The board Tuesday voted 8-0 to adopt the smog-control plan despite industry objections the plan will strangle the region's economy.
    18. Miller said he shot Roberts after Roberts tried to strangle him.
    19. We will never allow anybody, whomever he may be, to strangle the people of Iraq without having himself strangled.
    20. "If we continue to produce more oil without upgrading these areas, we'll strangle our refineries," the official added.
    21. Haaretz described the previous policy as one designed to "strangle the expression of independent economic initiative." Because of the policy, however, Israel has become dependent on a Palestinian work force of more than 100,000 people.
    22. Such a blockade against Swaziland would strangle the Swazis' external trade.
    23. Principals who broke traditions and "refused to let bureaucracy strangle innovation" were able to build better schools, a nationwide study concluded.
    24. Depew, Lambey said, liked to burn young sex partners with cigarettes, and partially strangle them.
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