• (RP) IPA: /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/

strangle (strangles, present participle strangling; past and past participle 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.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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

• strangulate
• strangulation

• French: étrangler
• German: strangulieren, erwürgen
• Portuguese: estrangular, sufocar
• Russian: души́ть
• Spanish: estrangular

• Russian: подавля́ть

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.