Strangled
Strangled adjective - Held in check with difficulty.
Took and strangled are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Took" instead a verb "Strangled".
Nearby Word: strangling
Took
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To kill her, Novak went to Kindel's apartment the night before the police raided Thurman's studio, took some photos of her with a film camera (as Douglas Thurman was a rare photographer who still used film instead of digital work), then strangled her and took her lipstick.
Source: Jack the Ripoff -
Daughter Maitland tells Chalky that Valentin took her in after her mother was strangled to death by a client.
Source: Series / Boardwalk Empire - I took my mother by force, and I strangled my sister when she would not consent to my advances.
Source: Self-Inflicted Hell
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