strangle
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
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- 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.
Origin
From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
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- To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
- 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...
Synonyms: scrag
- To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
- To stifle or suppress.
- He strangled a scream.
- To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
- To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
- Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […] - 1626, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William...
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