To execute by strangulation.
To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
To grant in mortmain.
To lose vitality.
To be subdued.
To gangrene.