Strangle

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

(2): (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.

(3): (v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

(4): (v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(חַנֵּק, πνίγω, to choke). Animals put to death by strangulation, not having the blood properly separated from the flesh, could not therefore be eaten without a violation of the Noachic precept (Genesis 9:4). The primitive Christians abstained from them, principally to avoid giving offense to the Jewish converts (Acts 15:20). (See Alisgema); (See Blood).