Illustration: On a Japanese television studio's creature-effects workbench, a mechanical snake prop coils tightly around the neck of a padded rehearsal dummy. The dummy's soft neck is visibly indented beneath the tightening loops, and its oversized head tilts sideways.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

絞しめる

shimeru

to strangle, to constrict

Example sentences

  1. 人ひとの首くびを絞しめる

    to wring someone’s neck

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 以上いじょうから、信長のぶながの方面軍制度ほうめんぐんせいどは、急激きゅうげきな勢力拡大せいりょくかくだいを可能かのうにしたが、同時どうじに自分じぶんの首くびを絞しめることとなったため、失敗しっぱいしたとも言いえるのである。

    From this, one could say that Nobunaga’s regional army system failed: it enabled him to expand his power rapidly, but it also ended up working against him.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. その服ふくの襟えりは、首くびを絞しめるほどきつい。

    The collar of that shirt is tight enough to constrict my neck.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 絞

  • 絞strangle; constrictOnコウKunしぼる・しめる・しまる

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