Meaning

(transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
2. (transitive) To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
3. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
4. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
5. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
6. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

He strangled a scream.

The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.

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; […]

Word Forms

• strangles
• strangling
• strangled

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