| verb | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air “he tried to strangle his opponent” |
| verb | conceal or hide “smother a yawn” |
| verb | die from strangulation |
| verb | prevent the progress or free movement of “He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather” |
| verb | constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing |
| verb | struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake “he swallowed a fishbone and gagged” |
| strangulation | noun | the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe |
| strangler | noun | an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree |
| strangling | noun | the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe |
| throttler | noun | someone who kills by strangling |
| throttling | noun | the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe |
| smotherer | noun | a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses |
| stifler | noun | a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses |
| stifling | noun | forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority |
| hamper | noun | a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) |
| choking | noun | the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe |
| suffocative | adjective | causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
| suffocation | noun | the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) |