strangle
Example Sentences
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Carrick would strangle her, call her abusive names and kick her out of the house if she did not obey him.
From BBC
One year since Harshita Brella was strangled to death in the UK, there is a sense of disbelief in her family home in the Indian capital Delhi.
From BBC
A sluggish economy, daily attacks on fuel convoys and a loss of territorial control: Mali's ruling junta is facing an existential crisis as a fuel blockade gradually strangles the capital Bamako and other regions.
From Barron's
The public rebuke of Gunvor marked an escalation in Washington’s effort to strangle Russia’s oil income, which has fueled Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
"When I was standing with my placard and talking to a policeman, a man in his 50s came up to us. He leant forward and said: 'Just strangle her.'"
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
