Verb:

குரல்வளை நெறி,

strangle's Usage Examples:

Unfortunately Morphy didn't think so, and he got quite stroppy as we took a stranglehold of the Universe.

I told him I didn't know anything and he tried to strangle me.

The crowd, which collected on so shocking a discovery, took up the idea that he had been strangled by the family to prevent him from changing his religion, and that this was a common practice among Protestants.

He gave a strangled cry of rage and pain in response.

A strangled sob escaped her lungs.

"Things strangled" and "blood" were rigorously abstained from; the lot was regarded as sacred; the accumulation of wealth they held to be unscriptural and improper, and each member considered his property as liable to be called upon at any time to meet the wants of the poor and the necessities of the church.

The mulla bashi (or high priest) objecting to the last, Nadir ordered him to be strangled, a command which was carried out on the spot.

But in Tobit we find Asmodaeus the evil demon, TO 7rovrlpov Sac,uoviov, who strangles Sarah's husbands, and also a general reference to " a devil or evil spirit," 77/€144,a.

break the stranglehold which big business has on some sports.

A few financially powerful countries or blocs have a stranglehold on the world market.

, who had him strangled.

Synonyms:

press, garotte, scrag, compress, kill, contract, garrotte, garrote, constrict, throttle, compact, squeeze, strangulate,

Antonyms:

unbridle, enable, cool, delay, fat person,