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Strangle
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- 1 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.
- 1 To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle. transitive
"She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid."
- 2 struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake wordnet
- 3 To stifle or suppress. transitive
"He strangled a scream."
- 4 constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing wordnet
- 5 To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled. intransitive
"The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar."
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- 6 prevent the progress or free movement of wordnet
- 7 To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner. intransitive
"Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?"
- 8 die from strangulation wordnet
- 9 suppress in order to conceal or hide wordnet
- 10 kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air wordnet
Etymology
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).
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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