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[malkhos]

I've been reading Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. There is a scene where Marlowe gets into a fight with some thug. Marlowe eventually gets a choke-hold around his neck and keeps it on until his opponent passes out. Then he lets go, since all he wants to do was subdue him. While he is unconcsious, Marlowe puts hand-cuffs on him since that way he would pretty much unable to put up any more resistance.

Now, suppose Marlowe had kept choking him after he passed out; kept doing it until he quit breathing? What would we call that?