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strangle  (strangles 3rd person present) (strangling present participle) (strangled past tense & past participle )
1  verb To strangle someone means to kill them by squeezing their throat tightly so that they cannot breathe.  (=throttle) 
He tried to strangle a border policeman and steal his gun...  V n 
2  verb To strangle something means to prevent it from succeeding or developing. 
The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions...  V n 



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