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g the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

Capable of being strangled. [R.] Chesterfield.

One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

To strangle. [Obs.]

To strangle with a bowstring.

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.

Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller. Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck. Milton.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. And strangled with her waste fertility. Milton. Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged. -- Waste paper. See under Paper. -- Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifical…