In horses, it is known as choke.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Some reports say that he died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone.

On the contrary, it is clear that the aim of the Greek Cypriot leadership is the total strangulation of the Turkish Cypriot people through further tightening of their isolation.

The pollution due to urban and industrial waste waters further strangled the environment and is most probably the main reason for the depletion of the marine biodiversity of the lagoon.

The methods are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.

Why would our judgments, and our emotions, vary in this way? For most of our evolutionary history, human beings and our primate ancestors have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.