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/ˈstraNGgəl/,
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strangled, past participle; strangled, past tense; strangling, present participle; strangles, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Squeeze or constrict the neck of (a person or animal), esp. so as to cause death
    • - the victim was strangled with a scarf
  2. Sounding as though the speaker's throat is constricted
    • - a series of strangled gasps
  3. Suppress (an impulse, action, or sound)
    • - she strangled a sob
  4. Hamper or hinder the development or activity of
    • - overrestrictive policies that strangle growth

  1. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
  2. smother: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
  3. die from strangulation
  4. hamper: prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
  5. choke: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
  6. gag: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
  7. (strangled) smothered: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
  8. (strangles) equine distemper: an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes
  9. (strangling) choking: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
  10. In finance, a strangle is an investment strategy involving the purchase or sale of particular option derivatives that allows the holder to profit based on how much the price of the underlying security moves, with relatively minimal exposure to the direction of price movement. ...
  11. Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain.Ernoehazy, William; Ernoehazy,WS. . www.emedicine.com. URL last accessed March 3, 2006. ...
  12. Strangles (also equine distemper) is a contagious, upper respiratory tract infection of horses and other equines caused by a bacterium, Streptococcus equi var equi. Strangles is enzootic in domesticated horses worldwide.
  13. (strangled) Animals killed by strangling, thus not bled properly.
  14. (Strangles) A contagious infection of a horse’s throat. The symptoms are very similar to those of a cold.
  15. (Strangles) Slang name for distemper in a horse. Term derives from fact that in severe cases it occurs in the windpipe area and can strangle a horse.
  16. An option position consisting of the purchase or sale of put and call options having the same expiration but different strike prices.
  17. When you either buy or sell a put and call of different strike and the same month
  18. A strangle is an option strategy whereby the purchaser buys a call option and a put option on the same instrument. Profits accrued to strangle are generated if straddle moves dramatically.
  19. A trading strategy whereby you write (sell) a put and a call.
  20. a strangle is the same idea as a straddle, but instead of buying or selling calls and puts at the same strike price, strike prices some distance apart are used. See the Strangle strategy discussion for more information.
  21. A position combining the purchase of both a call and a put at different strikes for the same date.  See straddle.
  22. A put and a call with both strikes different and out of the money.
  23. Buying or selling an out-of-the-money put option and call option on the same underlying instrument, with the same expiration. Profits are made only if there is a drastic change in the underlying instrument's price.
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