задушити in inglese:

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.