to strangle someone (See Karttunen)
QUECHPĀTZOĀ vt to strangle someone / lo estrangula (T) [(3)Tp.200]. Z has QUECHPĀTZCA with the same sense. See QUECH-TLI, PĀTZOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 207.