strangling
noun C2- The crime of killing by strangling.
Plural stranglings
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It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neckcloth and half-strangling him that we made him realize that his struggles were of no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands.
It was the sob of a woman, the muffled, strangling gasp of one who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow.
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