Throat vs Strangle - What's the difference?
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The front part of the neck.
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, title= The gullet or windpipe.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
Station throat.
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
(nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
(nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
(shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
(botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
(obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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
As verbs the difference between throat and strangle
is that throat is (obsolete) to utter in the throat; to mutter while strangle is to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.As a noun throat
is the front part of the neck.throat
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Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Purchase Price, chapter=1 , passage=Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
- (Gwilt)
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* (gullet) esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British) * (windpipe) trachea, windpipe * (narrow opening in a vessel) neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)Derived terms
* clear one's throat * cutthroat * deepthroat * Deep Throat * frog in one's throat * have a frog in one's throat * jump down someone's throat * sore throat * station throat * stick in one's throat * throaty * whitethroatVerb
(en verb)- to throat threats
- (Chapman)
External links
* ("throat" on Wikipedia) * * *strangle
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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?