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Pinching vs Strangling - What's the difference?

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Pinching is a related term of strangling.


As verbs the difference between pinching and strangling

is that pinching is while strangling is .

As nouns the difference between pinching and strangling

is that pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches while strangling is the crime of killing by strangling.

As an adjective pinching

is that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

pinching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.

    strangling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crime of killing by strangling.