Christopher Columbus's "The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded" and "The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid" both went on to become bestsellers.
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Strangle
//ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l//
Synonyms for "strangle" (184 found)
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Translations
95 translations across 52 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- στραγγαλίζω verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- ἄγχω verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Arabic
1 entries- خَنَقَ verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- boğmaq verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Basque
1 entries- itota hil verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Belarusian
2 entries- душы́ць verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- прыдушы́ць verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Bikol Central
1 entries- hugot verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Bulgarian
2 entries- сподавям verb (to stifle or suppress)
- удушавам verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Catalan
2 entries- escanyar verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- estrangular verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 压制 verb (to stifle or suppress)
- 扼殺 /扼杀 verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- 抑制 verb (to stifle or suppress)
Czech
3 entries- dávit verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- potlačit verb (to stifle or suppress)
- uškrtit verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Danish
1 entries- kvæle verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Dutch
3 entries- onderdrukken verb (to stifle or suppress)
- worgen verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- wurgen verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Esperanto
1 entries- strangoli verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Finnish
1 entries- kuristaa verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
French
1 entries- étrangler verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Galician
2 entries- esganar verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- estrangular verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Georgian
4 entries- ახრჩობს verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- გუდავს verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- დაგუდვა verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- დახრჩობა verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
German
2 entries- erwürgen verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- strangulieren verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Greek
1 entries- στραγγαλίζω verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Hebrew
2 entries- חנק verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- חנק למוות verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Hungarian
3 entries- elfojt verb (to stifle or suppress)
- fojtogat verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- megfojt verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Indonesian
1 entries- mencekik verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Irish
1 entries- tacht verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Italian
1 entries- strangolare verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Japanese
1 entries- 絞め殺す verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thīp-àh verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Khmer
3 entries- ច្របាច់ក verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- ត្របែងក verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- រឹតក verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Korean
1 entries- 교살하다 verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Latin
4 entries- angō verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- offōcō verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- strangulō verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- suffōcō verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pasmaugti verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Middle English
2 entries- stranglen verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- stranglen verb (to stifle or suppress)
Māori
4 entries- nanati verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- nanati verb (to stifle or suppress)
- natinati verb (to stifle or suppress)
- ronarona verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Norman
1 entries- êtranglyi verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- fetisandin verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- загрълꙗти verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Old English
2 entries- wyrgan verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- āwyrġan verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بوغمق verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Portuguese
2 entries- estrangular verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- sufocar verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Quechua
1 entries- sipiy verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Russian
4 entries- души́ть verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- задуши́ть verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- подави́ть verb (to stifle or suppress)
- подавля́ть verb (to stifle or suppress)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- mùch verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- tachd verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zadaviti verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Slovak
1 entries- zaškrtiť verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Spanish
1 entries- estrangular verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Swahili
2 entries- nyonga verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- nyonga verb (to stifle or suppress)
Swedish
2 entries- strypa verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- undertrycka verb (to stifle or suppress)
Tagalog
3 entries- manakal verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- sakalin verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- sumakal verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Thai
1 entries- บีบคอ verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Turkish
1 entries- boğmak verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Ukrainian
4 entries- души́ти verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- задуши́ти verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
- приду́шувати verb (to stifle or suppress)
- придуши́ти verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bóp nghẹt verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Welsh
1 entries- tagu verb (to kill someone by strangulation)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Tom couldn't quite bring himself to strangle Mary.
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That's right, when you greet him you must strangle him with all your strength. He'll be glad.
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The first person to repeat that to my wife, I will strangle. Understood?
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