strangled

Definitions

Squeezed or constricted the neck of a person or animal, causing death or difficulty in breathing.

Restricted or suppressed the development, growth, or expression of something.

Examples

The thick vines had strangled the life out of the ancient oak tree.

He felt as though his ambition was being strangled by the endless bureaucracy of the office.

Synonyms

choked suffocated asphyxiated throttled smothered constricted stifled

Antonyms

freed released unrestrained liberated unblocked ventilated loosened