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be strangled
verb
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
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He likes to be strangled by whip!
We cannot stand by and allow them to be strangled.
"The joke was that the next time he'd be strangled," Mr. Casson said.
Would they have us rave Or disfigure ourselves, or be strangled Like some ancient emperor's slave?
They said that if someone grabbed Amina's hijab, for instance, she could be strangled.
'Irrigation,' said the Nevada court, ' * * * would be strangled by the enforcement of the riparian principle.' Twaddle v. Winters, 29 Nev.
If Rafah remains shut, it means our acceptance to be strangled, our acceptance to die.
In fact, a person can be strangled in less than 12 seconds and never stop breathing.
Rather, he believes they need to be strangled into near oblivion.
Those who disrespect the island, the stories say, will be strangled in their sleep.
That could be strangled by any crisis that causes a steep recession.
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