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🤼 A choking grip 🦴 The throat ✋ To choke
to thrapple

to thrapple

9.9
To put a tight grip on someone's throat so the person cannot breathe
  • verb
  • NSFW
translation icon : estrangular
  • The villain thrappled his victim to silence him.

Examples

  • He tried to thrapple the intruder during the struggle.

  • The villain tried to thrapple his enemy during the fight.

  • He threatened to thrapple anyone who broke the rules in his workshop.

  • She warned that she would thrapple anyone who touched her belongings.

  • In the heat of the battle, the hero threatened to thrapple his opponent if he did not surrender.

  • During the intense fight, he managed to thrapple the attacker, cutting off his air supply.

  • She claimed that she would thrapple anyone who dared to insult her in front of her friends.

Synonyms

to choke
vsto thrapple
  • NSFW
264 3.7

To be unable to breathe because something blocks the throat or neck

refers specifically to seizing or compressing the throat not general airway blockage
to strangle
vsto thrapple
  • Offensive
209 6.2

To kill or injure someone by squeezing their throat and stopping breathing

can mean nonfatal neck squeezing rather than only injuring or killing
to stifle
vsto thrapple
  • NSFW
7 6.6

To stop a person from breathing so they cannot get air

involves seizing or compressing the throat instead of general suffocation
to throttle
vsto thrapple
  • Offensive
3 8.8

To squeeze someone's throat to stop their breathing

often implies an attempt to kill rather than merely causing temporary breath loss
to scrag
vsto thrapple
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To kill by twisting or squeezing someone's neck

involves seizing or compressing the throat rather than twisting the neck
to strangulate
vsto thrapple
  • Offensive
9.6

To kill someone by squeezing their throat so they cannot breathe

focuses on causing death rather than possible nonfatal neck compression

Antonyms

to release
∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

to liberate
104 4.3

Set someone free from prison or unfair control

How Violent

to asphyxiate
  • Specialized
13 9.3
to strangle
  • Offensive
209 6.2
to thrapple
  • NSFW
9.9
to choke
  • NSFW
264 3.7

Surface Forms

thrapple infinitive
thrappled past
thrappled past participle
thrappling present participle
thrapples third person singular

Etymology

Thrapple began as a word for the 'throat', and by picture it became a verb for grabbing that part. So to thrapple someone is to 'grapple' their throat—meaning to choke or strangle them.