strangle
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Is strangle a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of strangle?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.Examples: "She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid."; "And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string."transitive
2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.Examples: "He strangled a scream."transitive
3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.Examples: "The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.Examples: "Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?"; "Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]"intransitive
noun (English)
1. (finance) A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.
Definition source: Wiktionary