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Strangle
- verb - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Strapple
- - To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
Subacute
- adjective - less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it
Sudanese
- adjective - a native or inhabitant of Sudan
- of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people; "the Sudanese desert"
Sybarite
- noun - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Sycamore
- noun - any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
- Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
- thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
- variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Syracuse
- noun - a city in central New York
- a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC
- the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse
- the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)
Taxaceae
- noun - sometimes classified as member of order Taxales
Tenaille
- - An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.