What's the difference between kill and strangle?

Kill


Definition:

  • (n.) A kiln.
  • (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
  • (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (3) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
  • (4) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (5) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
  • (6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (7) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
  • (8) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (9) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (10) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (11) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
  • (12) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
  • (13) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (14) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (15) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (16) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
  • (17) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (18) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (19) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
  • (20) The groups were killed at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours, respectively, after 3MI administration.

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."