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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.clutch; grip
扼住她的咽喉
clutch at her throat
扼杀
strangle
玛丽扑向他，紧紧地扼住他的喉咙。
Mary went for him, gripping him by the throat.
synonym
- 2
v.guard; control
扼守
guard
扼制火灾
control of the fire
扼守关口
guard the pass
Words and phrases with 扼
- 扼守[word]hold
- 扼制[word]restrain
- 扼襟控咽[word]secure a strangle hold on
- 扼流[word]choke flow
- 扼喉抚背[word]have a squeeze hold on the enemy by slapping his back and strangling his throat
- 扼波器[word]choke
- 扼腕[word]wring one's hands
- 扼腕叹息[word]sigh while wringing one's hands
- 扼杀[word]strangle; destroy
- 扼吭拊背[idiom]grab somebody by the throat and hit her spine