Crossword-Solution: STRANGLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strangle | v. t. | To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. |
| Strangle | v. t. | To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. |
| Strangle | v. t. | To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. |
| Strangle | v. i. | To be strangled, or suffocated. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRANGLE | anagram | TANGLERS |
We have 34 clues for the answer “STRANGLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Suppress the growth of | 1 answer |
| Bowstring | 1 answer |
| Delay, as traffic | 1 answer |
| Hulk Hogan hold | 1 answer |
| Suffocate, in a way | 1 answer |
| Hinder growth | 2 answers |
| Garrote? | 5 answers |
| CAUSE TO RETCH OR CHOKE | 10 answers |
| A PEDAL THAT CONTROLS THE THROTTLE VALVE | 10 answers |
| AT FULL THROTTLE | 10 answers |
| BOWSTRING PROTECTION | 10 answers |
| CHOKE BACK | 10 answers |
| BOWSTRING GROOVE | 11 answers |
| Wrestling hold | 13 answers |
| Obviate | 25 answers |
| overcrowd | 26 answers |
| strangulate | 26 answers |
| garrotte | 29 answers |
| Throttle | 32 answers |
| congest | 33 answers |
| MAKE quiet | 37 answers |
| contain | 43 answers |
| ASPHYXIATE | 43 answers |
| shut off | 44 answers |
| smother | 48 answers |
| Muffle | 48 answers |
| Clog | 50 answers |
| Muzzle | 51 answers |
| Repress | 51 answers |
| compress | 52 answers |
| Gag | 56 answers |
| Choke | 56 answers |
| Suppress | 60 answers |
| Restrain | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRANGLE (5)
The plant man was well muscled, heavy, and powerful but my earthly sinews and greater agility, in conjunction with the deathly strangle hold I had upon him, would have given me, I think, an eventual victory had we had time to discuss the merits of our relative prowess uninterrupted.
The dentist, of course, had an enormous advantage in point of strength, but Marcus prided himself on his wrestling, and knew something about strangle-holds and half-Nelsons.
Then he leapt on my father, who was clinging in terror to the window-sill, and, grappling, tried to strangle him with the rope, which he threw over his head, but which slipped over his struggling shoulders to his feet.
The same hair and eyes: but Miss Elfride’s mother was darker a good deal.” “Life’s a strangle bubble, ye see,” said William Worm musingly.
With the brow of a fallen archangel, The lips of a beautiful fiend, And locks that are snake-like to strangle, And eyes from whose depths may be glean'd The presence of passions, that tremble Unbidden, yet shine as they may Through features too proud to dissemble, Too cold and too calm to betray Their secrets to creatures of clay.
Quotes with STRANGLE (3)
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh." Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was r…
Not really hungry.""She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly." I said — ""If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation.""I eat plenty.""The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however.""I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1975–2016).