strangle

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

strangles

V_ing/Gerund

strangling

V_ed/pp

strangled

1.
(transitive)To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
Đồng nghĩa: scrag
2.
(transitive)To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
3.
(transitive)To stifle or suppress.
He strangled a scream.
4.
(intransitive)To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
5.
(intransitive)To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

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.

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Đồng nghĩa

scrag

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (to be strangled), from στραγγάλη (a halter); compare στραγγός (twisted) and string. Displaced wirien, awurien (to strangle) (> worry).