strangle

hang; strangle

to kill, to put to death / to ruin, to spoil / to suppress, to stifle

(often informal) murder

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

strangling to death

strangle to death

to stifle (a voice, emotions, etc.)