Strangle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To kill someone by strangulation (squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply); to choke, suffocate or throttle. To stifle or suppress an action. To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
Example sentence: We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.
Repress
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of repressing.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To press again.To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.