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STRANGLE
gag, choke, strangle, suffocate
(verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; “he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”
choke, strangle
(verb) constrict (someone’s) throat and keep from breathing
hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
(verb) prevent the progress or free movement of; “He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather”; “the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries”
strangle
(verb) die from strangulation
smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide; “smother a yawn”; “muffle one’s anger”; “strangle a laugh”; “repress a cry of fear”
strangle, strangulate, throttle
(verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; “he tried to strangulate his opponent”; “A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
strangle (third-person singular simple present strangles, present participle strangling, simple past and past participle strangled)
(transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
(transitive) To stifle or suppress.
(intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
(intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
Noun
strangle (plural strangles)
(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.
Anagrams
• Largents, langrets, tanglers, trangles
Source: Wiktionary
Stran"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling.] Etym: [OF. estrangler, F. Ă©trangler, L. strangulare, Gr. string, n. Cf. Strain, String.]
1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.
2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes Shak.
3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts." Shak.
Stran"gle, v. i.
Definition: To be strangled, or suffocated.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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