strangle

English

Etymology

From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
  • Rhymes: -æŋɡəl
  • Hyphenation: stran‧gle

Verb

strangle (third-person singular simple present strangles, present participle strangling, simple past and past participle strangled)

A drawing showing a woman being strangled.
  1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
    He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
  2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
    She strangled a scream.
  3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
    The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
  4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strangle (plural strangles)

  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.

See also

Further reading
  • strangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • strangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • strangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Middle English

Verb

strangle

  1. Alternative form of stranglen
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