strangle

IPA: strˈæŋgʌɫ

noun

  • (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.

verb

  • (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
  • (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
  • (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
  • (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
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Examples of "strangle" in Sentences

  • Strangle the fool that dares to scoff
  • He was strangled to death with a bowstring.
  • Reilly strangled the foreman and completed the theft.
  • Death of the phloem essentially strangles the tree to death.
  • He would then strangle them and dump the bodies in the desert.
  • The new policy was designed to more greatly strangle the Church.
  • He then uses the antenna of the car to strangle Jennifer to death.
  • The red cloaked figure reappeared and attempted to strangle the two.
  • Enraged, the mind of Clerval surfaces, and the Creature strangles her to death.

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