What's the difference between choker and strangle?

Choker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
  • (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It always seems strange that a team so relentlessly consistent in the regular season should have started to build a reputation as chokers in home elimination games, but thankfully for RSL, that reputation is gone, along with the two-time defending champions the Galaxy.
  • (2) RSL meanwhile have (thus far at least) dealt another blow to their reputation as home field chokers.
  • (3) High point Claiming the title in Melbourne in January 2006, after being dismissed for many years as a “choker”.
  • (4) membership callout Trump also did a better job at controlling his emotions when Hillary tried to bait him by calling him a choker and a “puppet”.
  • (5) Romney was dismissed by Donald Trump, the television personality and real estate magnate, as a “choker” who had had his turn while Bush’s support for the controversial Common Core educational standards was attacked by others.
  • (6) Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Brad Thorn and Richie McCaw do not have the air of chokers about them; behind the scrum Cory Jane gave one of the great aerial catching exhibitions and Israel Dagg again showed himself to be a monumental talent.
  • (7) Their Plan A isn't working and their Plan B is sitting on the bench ruing another wasted opportunity to show everybody that he's not a complete over-rated choker.
  • (8) I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” Asked by the Journal about Romney, Trump stayed true to form, saying: “Once a choker, always a choker.
  • (9) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
  • (10) Spanish optimism here is tempered only by the knowledge that their record in the World Cup has been so poor, so ignominious at times, they have grown wearily accustomed over the decades to the allegation that sportsmen dislike the most – that of being chokers.
  • (11) The LeBron-as-choker narrative has two fatal flaws: the pair of NBA titles the 29-year-old has already won.
  • (12) Hopefully, this will soon happen to the narrative of LeBron as a big-game choker.
  • (13) Lose it, on the other hand, and they will be damned as chronic chokers and many fans will call for Wenger to be ushered into retirement.
  • (14) Her mass of black curls swept across her head in a style adopted by Lorde, she's dressed up in a ribbon choker, silver slip dress, goth flatforms and a tatty leather jacket.
  • (15) I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump calls Romney a ‘choker’ during a rally with supporters in Anaheim, California.
  • (16) Manning is not the choker that some make him out to be Peyton Manning still has one more hurdle to clear.
  • (17) We don’t come to Washington as shooters and chokers,” he shouted.

Strangle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
  • (v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
  • (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
  • (v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
  • (2) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
  • (3) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (4) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
  • (5) We just want to do that in a low-carbon way, we’ve always said that.” Opposing all new runway construction risks binding the hands of the Liberal Democrats and strangling growth in the regions, activists were told during the debate.
  • (6) Three were shot, two were strangled, one was stabbed and one was killed through 15 blunt-force trauma injuries.
  • (7) Across the Pacific, the subtle, unremitting first impacts of the climate crisis are already strangling lives.
  • (8) They are strangling democracy; using their enormous wealth and power of influence to disseminate confusion about climate change, and prevent our leaders from taking action.
  • (9) The Abbott government has done another deal on the side to strangle the wind industry with unfair regulations, which don’t apply to industries with genuine health impacts, like coal and gas,” said the Greens deputy leader, Larissa Waters.
  • (10) Quite what Mourinho screamed into the pitchside microphone at the final whistle is unclear – the Portuguese claimed that he was singing – but there is no escaping the fact that Chelsea made hard work of what could have been a routine win and that there is a vulnerability about them defensively that is hard to reconcile with the team that strangled the life out of opponents last season.
  • (11) It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.
  • (12) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
  • (13) We suggest that XPRP potentiates the damage of the secretory epithelium made by CCR, by strangling the posterior (long ciliary) blood supply of the ciliary body.
  • (14) The paper also projects the mentality of perpetrators who, after strangling their victims, tried to hide the crime by disposing of the dead bodies by burning, burying, hanging, throwing them into water, or concealing them in distant places in most of the cases.
  • (15) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
  • (16) '; I don't understand who invented that thing, 'R-Patz', I want to strangle them.
  • (17) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
  • (18) It found they were more confident than last year, but also rather worried about regulation strangling their firms, and the danger posed by high government debt levels.
  • (19) One account from Mabhouh's brother suggested he had been strangled and electrocuted.
  • (20) Pickles said: "If you want to rebuild a fragile national economy, you don't strangle business with red tape and let bloated regional quangos make all the decisions."