Meaning of गला घोंटना in English

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]
Alt. of Asphyxied
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
The tied end of a cartridge.
A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
The throttle valve.
To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Alt. of Thuggism

Meaning of गला घोंटना in English

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