STRANGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strangling mean? 

• STRANGLING (noun)
  The noun STRANGLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

  Familiarity information: STRANGLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRANGLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

choking; strangling; strangulation; throttling

Context example:

no evidence that the choking was done by the accused

Hypernyms ("strangling" is a kind of...):

asphyxiation; suffocation (killing by depriving of oxygen)

Derivation:

strangle (kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air)

 Context examples 

The taste of the salt was strong in my mouth, and I was strangling with the acrid stuff in my throat and lungs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Strangling, suffocating, sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the bank.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But for all the hurry of his coming, these were not the dews of exertion that he wiped away, but the moisture of some strangling anguish; for his face was white and his voice, when he spoke, harsh and broken.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Small waves, with spiteful foaming crests, continually broke over me and into my mouth, sending me off into more strangling paroxysms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)