strangle

UK /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/ US /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
verb 4noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

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

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.

2

To stifle or suppress.

He strangled a scream.

3

To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

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

4

To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

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; […]

noun

1

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.

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