strangle

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

choke

throttle

suffocate

strangulate

stifle

smother

squeeze

tighten

drown

repress

gag

muffle

garrotte

hang

kill

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slaughter

scrag

press

constrict

halter

cramp

suppress

hamper

quell

quench

restrain

spew

straddle

string up

swallow

whip

force back

wring the neck

stress

stiffle

break the neck

assassinate

i hrottle

beat

bend

block

bowstring

choked

choke down

choke off

compress

constringe

contract

crush

dampen

garotte

garrote

inhibit

jugulate

knead

make smaller

overlay

press down

punish

quash

Translations

étrangler

estrangular

erwürgen

wurgen

erdrosseln

worgen

ahogar

strangulieren

boğmak

étouffer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stranglen

In summary

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).