strangle

English

Etymology

From Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
• Rhymes: -æŋɡəl
• Hyphenation: stran‧gle

Verb

A drawing showing a woman being strangled.

1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

   He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.

2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.

   She strangled a scream.

3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

   The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.

4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Related terms

• strangulate
• strangulation

Translations

to kill someone by strangulation

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: itota hil
• Belarusian: душы́ць impf (dušýcʹ), прыдушы́ць pf (prydušýcʹ)
• Catalan: estrangular (ca), escanyar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扼殺／扼杀 (zh) (èshā), 扼杀 (zh) (èshā)

• Czech: uškrtit, dávit (cs)
• Danish: kvæle (da)
• Dutch: wurgen (nl), worgen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kuristaa (fi)
• French: étrangler (fr)
• Galician: esganar
• Georgian: დაგუდვა (dagudva) (verbal noun), გუდავს (gudavs) (infinitive), დახრჩობა (daxrčoba) (verbal noun), ახრჩობს (axrčobs) (infinitive)
• German: strangulieren (de), erwürgen (de)
• Greek: στραγγαλίζω (el) (strangalízo)

  Ancient: ἄγχω (ánkhō)

• Hebrew: חנק (he) (khanák), חנק למוות (khanák lamávet)
• Hungarian: megfojt (hu)
• Irish: tacht
• Japanese: 絞め殺す (しめころす, shimekorosu)
• Khmer: ច្របាច់ក (km) (crɑbac kɑɑ), ត្របែងក (trɑbaeŋ kɑɑ), រឹតក (riit kɑɑ)
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• Korean: 교살하다 (gyosalhada)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: strangulō, suffōcō, offōcō
• Lithuanian: pasmaugti
• Maori: ronarona, nanati, tārona
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: êtranglyi
• Old English: āwyrġan
• Portuguese: estrangular (pt), sufocar (pt)
• Quechua: sipiy
• Russian: души́ть (ru) impf (dušítʹ), задуши́ть (ru) pf (zadušítʹ), придуши́ть (ru) pf (pridušítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: tachd, mùch
• Serbo-Croatian: zadaviti (sh)
• Slovak: zaškrtiť
• Spanish: estrangular (es)
• Swahili: nyonga (sw)
• Swedish: strypa (sv)
• Thai: บีบคอ (bìip-kɔɔ)
• Turkish: boğmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: души́ти impf (dušýty), задуши́ти pf (zadušýty), придуши́ти pf (prydušýty)
• Vietnamese: bóp nghẹt (vi)
• Welsh: tagu (cy)
• Westrobothnian: , , , ,

to stifle or suppress

• Czech: potlačit
• Dutch: onderdrukken (nl)
• Maori: nanati, natinati
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• Russian: подавля́ть (ru) impf (podavljátʹ), подави́ть (ru) pf (podavítʹ)
• Swahili: nyonga (sw)
• Swedish: undertrycka (sv)

Noun

strangle (plural strangles)

1. (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.

See also

• asphyxiate
• choke
• querk
• suffocate
• throttle

Further reading

• “strangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “strangle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “strangle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Largents, langrets, tanglers, trangles