ADV
almost, half, nearly
VERB + STRANGLE
try to
PREP
with
The victim was strangled with a piece of rope during the robbery.
PHRASES
be found strangled
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.
verb — constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
verb — kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
To switch off the transponder, for example, because it is interfering with the radar system.
If you fly jets, you know what it means to strangle the parrot (turning off the transponder that identifies aircraft as friendly or hostile) and that the howgozit is a dial that sh
She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
WiktionaryAnd 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 stran
WiktionaryHe strangled a scream.
WiktionaryChristopher Columbus's "The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded" and "The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid" both went on to become bestsellers.
Tatoeba · #564007Tom couldn't quite bring himself to strangle Mary.
Tatoeba · #1029399That's right, when you greet him you must strangle him with all your strength. He'll be glad.
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