strangle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
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).
Inflected forms:
form: strangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strangled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: strangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To stifle or suppress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He strangled a scream.
gloss: To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
gloss: To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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; […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Related words: strangulate
strangulation
Derived words: strangleable
strangledly
stranglehold
stranglement
strangler
strangle the parrot
strangleweed
strangling
strangling angel
strangling angel of children
strangling fig
stranglingly
unstrangle
unstrangled
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَنَقَ
roman: ḵanaqa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: boğmaq
lang: Basque
word: itota hil
lang: Belarusian
word: душы́ць
roman: dušýcʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прыдушы́ць
roman: prydušýcʹ
lang: Central Bikol
word: hugot
lang: Bulgarian
word: удушавам
roman: udušavam
lang: Catalan
word: estrangular
lang: Catalan
word: escanyar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 扼殺 /扼杀
roman: èshā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 勒死
roman: lèsǐ
lang: Czech
word: uškrtit
lang: Czech
word: dávit
lang: Danish
word: kvæle
lang: Dutch
word: wurgen
lang: Dutch
word: worgen
lang: Esperanto
word: strangoli
lang: Finnish
word: kuristaa
lang: French
word: étrangler
lang: Galician
word: esganar
lang: Galician
word: estrangular
lang: Georgian
word: დაგუდვა
roman: dagudva
lang: Georgian
word: გუდავს
roman: gudavs
lang: Georgian
word: დახრჩობა
roman: daxrčoba
lang: Georgian
word: ახრჩობს
roman: axrčobs
lang: German
word: strangulieren
lang: German
word: erwürgen
lang: Greek
word: στραγγαλίζω
roman: strangalízo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄγχω
roman: ánkhō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: στραγγαλίζω
roman: strangalízō
lang: Hebrew
word: חנק
roman: khanák
lang: Hebrew
word: חנק למוות
roman: khanák lamávet
lang: Hungarian
word: megfojt
lang: Hungarian
word: fojtogat
lang: Indonesian
word: mencekik
lang: Irish
word: tacht
lang: Italian
word: strangolare
lang: Japanese
word: 絞め殺す
roman: shimekorosu
lang: Khmer
word: ច្របាច់ក
roman: crɑbac kɑɑ
lang: Khmer
word: ត្របែងក
roman: trɑbaeŋ kɑɑ
lang: Khmer
word: រឹតក
roman: riit kɑɑ
lang: Korean
word: 교살하다
roman: gyosalhada
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: fetisandin
lang: Latin
word: angō
lang: Latin
word: strangulō
lang: Latin
word: suffōcō
lang: Latin
word: offōcō
lang: Lithuanian
word: pasmaugti
lang: Māori
word: ronarona
lang: Māori
word: nanati
lang: Māori
word: tārona
lang: Middle English
word: stranglen
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: thīp-àh
lang: Norman
word: êtranglyi
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: загрълꙗти
roman: zagrŭljati
lang: Old English
word: āwyrġan
lang: Old English
word: wyrgan
lang: Portuguese
word: estrangular
lang: Portuguese
word: sufocar
lang: Quechua
word: sipiy
lang: Russian
word: души́ть
roman: dušítʹ
lang: Russian
word: задуши́ть
roman: zadušítʹ
lang: Russian
word: придуши́ть
roman: pridušítʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tachd
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mùch
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zadaviti
lang: Slovak
word: zaškrtiť
lang: Spanish
word: estrangular
lang: Swahili
word: nyonga
lang: Swedish
word: strypa
lang: Tagalog
word: sumakal
lang: Tagalog
word: manakal
lang: Tagalog
word: sakalin
lang: Thai
word: บีบคอ
roman: bìip-kɔɔ
lang: Turkish
word: boğmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوغمق
roman: boğmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: души́ти
roman: dušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: задуши́ти
roman: zadušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: придуши́ти
roman: prydušýty
lang: Unami
word: këpixkwèna
lang: Vietnamese
word: bóp nghẹt
lang: Welsh
word: tagu