verb
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.
To stifle or suppress.
He strangled a scream.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
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
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.