Verb

(head)

(strangle)

Verb

(strangl)

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.

To stifle or suppress an action.

She strangled a scream.

To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

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

To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

* Shakespeare

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Verb

(head)

(straggle)

Verb

(straggl)

To stray from the road, course or line of march.

He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.

To wander about; ramble.

* L'Estrange

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.

To spread at irregular intervals.

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To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

* Mortimer

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

* Sir Walter Scott

straggling pistol shots

* Sir Walter Raleigh

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.