strangled

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/2/2009 09:45 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>i suspect that many people are inclined to discriminate transitive
>"strangle" (normally conveying an endpoint) from transitive "choke
>(not necessarily conveying an endpoint).

In other words, "strangled" generally means "terminally choked".

Joel

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