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.
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.
The crime of killing by strangling.