noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.
2. 2
   someone who kills by strangling wordnet
3. 3
   An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.
4. 4
   an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree wordnet

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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detachedenablingfree growingfreeing

Etymology

From strangle + -er.