Translation for 'to strangle' from English to Russian

to strangle [to death]

задушить [сов.] [сжав горло]

• The aim was to control both supply and sales, charging high prices and paying low prices to strangle state companies and then privatise them at very low prices.
• She was later convicted and imprisoned for attempting to strangle a woman she had lured to a motel in an attempt to convince authorities that the Hillside Strangler was still on the loose.
• She was later convicted and imprisoned for attempting to strangle a woman she had lured to a motel in an attempt to have authorities believe that the Hillside Strangler was still on the loose and the wrong man was imprisoned.
• For example, suppose that A begins to strangle B and, believing B to be dead, abandons the "body" in nearby woods where B dies of exposure.
• In 1950, Kinski stayed in "Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik" , a psychiatric hospital, for three days because he stalked his theatrical sponsor and eventually tried to strangle her.

• Davis became inebriated at the wedding and attempted to strangle White en route to their wedding suite.
• Messalina considered Agrippina's son a threat to her son's position and sent assassins to strangle Lucius during his siesta.
• In 1940 and 1941, Göring's refusal to co-operate with the Kriegsmarine denied the entire Wehrmacht military forces of the Reich the chance to strangle British sea communications, which might have had a strategic or decisive effect in the war against the British Empire.
• Before he was about to strangle Susarma to death, Yudhishthira told him to spare him.
• Conrad begins to strangle Sylvia but is stopped by Alma.

• The term derives from the Latin "angere" ("to strangle") and "pectus" ("chest"), and can therefore be translated as "a strangling feeling in the chest".
• He comes into Lou's room and starts to strangle her, breaking off only because he still loves her and cannot harm her.
• On 31 December, Marcia poisoned Commodus's food, but he vomited up the poison, so the conspirators sent his wrestling partner Narcissus to strangle him in his bath.
• A complicated theory of relations continued to strangle Russell's explanatory 1919 "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy" and his 1927 second edition of "Principia".
• According to one source, it was Athena who punished Laocoön even further, by sending two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons.

• Unable to adapt to forced medication, and in the company of highly disturbed and highly dangerous patients, Bronson attempted to strangle child rapist and murderer John White.
• Paul Wilson, a convicted robber, asked to borrow a videotape before attempting to strangle Sutcliffe with the cable from a pair of stereo headphones.
• Caroli quickly became a problem; he attempted to strangle his MI5 handler before making an escape, carrying a canoe on a motorcycle.