The act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe.
Then powerfulness means the chains are more constricting, and reliability that they are harder to remove.
It was not weed: the chain of the Horcrux had tightened and was slowly constricting his windpipe.
Dark colors, such as red, purple, blue, and dark shades of green, can have a constricting and gloomy effect.
The practice, now illegal, required breaking the arch of the foot, then constricting it, which resulted in a stylized, mincing qait in the name of beauty.
But these limits are so exact and constricting that it's hard to imagine a wet system such as the brain ever achieving them.
Nevertheless, for this still-unjaundiced admirer from afar, there was a flash of that former throat-constricting poignancy when he opened the renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks on Wednesday evening.
Its web of regulations is too constricting; its job protection is too rigid; its health, welfare and education systems still need big doses of change; its service sector is underdeveloped.
But such a perfectionist mindset can be constricting to one's career, Schulman pointed out, because there is no chance to learn and mature from the experience of getting things wrong.
