絞首

こうしゅ

hanging, strangling to death

絞首刑

こうしゅけい

death by hanging

絞首台

こうしゅだい

gallows

絞首索

こうしゅさく

hangman's noose; halter

首を絞める

くびをしめる

to wring the neck, to strangle

絞まる

しまる

to be strangled, to be constricted

首が繋がる

くびがつながる

to be spared from being fired; to avoid getting the chop

絞る

しぼる

to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk

真綿で首を絞める

まわたでくびをしめる

to drag things out, to creep up slowly on the point, to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope)

自分の首を絞める

じぶんのくびをしめる

to ask for trouble, to dig your own grave, to cut your own throat

首がすわる

くびがすわる

to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

絞める

しめる

to strangle, to constrict

首切る

くびきる

to behead, to decapitate

絞

death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)

引き絞る

ひきしぼる

to draw bow to limit, to draw aside curt

振り絞る

ふりしぼる

to muster (one's strength)

油を絞る

あぶらをしぼる

to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke

絞り取る

しぼりとる

to squeeze or wring out from

液を絞る

えきをしぼる

to squeeze the juice (from)