Tom couldn't quite bring himself to strangle Mary.
it would strangle me
Like a woman being strangled into unconsciousness by her boyfriend.
His invention caused his death when he was strangled by the ropes.
She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods
Christopher Columbus's "The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded" and "The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid" both went on to become bestsellers.
The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
They smothered the fire
He had tried to commit suicide twice by starving himself until hospitalized, and when returned home had begged his parents to smother him in his sleep.
By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.