verb

1. To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

   “He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.”

2. To stifle or suppress.

   “She strangled a scream.”

3. To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

   “The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.”