Strangulate vs Strangle - What's the difference?
strangulate | strangle |
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
To stifle or suppress an action.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
* Shakespeare
Strangle is a related term of strangulate.
As verbs the difference between strangulate and strangle
is that strangulate is to stop flow through a vessel while strangle is to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.strangle
English
Verb
(strangl)- He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
- She strangled a scream.
- The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
