strangle vs confine

strangle and confine both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
strangle	No	No	Yes	No
confine	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, confine is a hypernym of strangle; that is, confine is a word with a broader meaning than strangle:

Other hypernyms of strangle include bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel.

strangle (verb)	confine (verb)
constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing	place limits on (extent or amount or access)
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake	to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
prevent the progress or free movement of	prevent from leaving or from being removed
die from strangulation	deprive of freedom; take into confinement
kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air	close in
suppress in order to conceal or hide