strangle

vt.
1. kill by stopping respiration,hang 扼杀，绞死。
△ 2H.VI.2.3.8: “And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.”你们三个人要在绞架上被绞死。
2. choke,suppress,extinguish,hinder from appear-ance 掐死，压制，扑灭，阻止…的出现。
△ H.VIII.5.1.157(156): “He has strangled / His language in his tears.”他用眼泪把自己要说的话强压下去了。
△Tw.5.1.151 (147):“strangle thy propriety，”i.e.disown your identity.否认你自己的身份。
3. stifle,eclipse 使窒息，把…遮暗。
△ 1H.IV.1.2.224(202):“breaking through the foul and ugly mists / Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.”冲破了那些似乎把它扼杀(又译：把它的光完全遮住)的污秽丑恶的云雾。

strangle[ˈstræŋgl]

v.关掉，扼死
‖ stranglehold n.压制自由，束缚，抑制
strangler n.扼杀者，压制者