to kill someone by pressing their throat so that they cannot breathe扼死,勒死,掐死
She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods.她被人用她自己的圍巾勒死,棄屍於樹林裏。
to stop something from developing抑制,壓制;扼殺
For years, the organization was strangled by excessive bureaucracy.該機構多年來因官僚主義作風嚴重,發展受到阻滞。
There is a great deal of fear that the new restrictions might strangle the country's economy.很多人害怕新的限制措施會抑制國家的經濟發展。