strangle

Pronunciation: /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/

The English word “strangle” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
To stifle or suppress.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

noun

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.

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 worien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).

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