Strangle

Definition: Strangle

Strangle

Verb

1. Squeeze the throat of; "he tried to strangle his opponent".

Date "strangle" was first used: sometime around 1280. (references)

Note: Strangle \Stran"gle\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Strangled; Strangling.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Finance	Option strategy established by selling or buying both a put and a call option with different striking prices and/or expiration dates. Source: European Union. (references)
	An options strategy in which the exercise price of the call is higher-and that of the put lower-than the current price of the underlying stock. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Strangle

Synonyms: strangulate (v), throttle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contraction	Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Killing	Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Strangle

English words defined with "strangle": bloodsucking ♦ Estrangle ♦ garotte, garrotte ♦ leechlike ♦ parasitic, parasitical ♦ scrag, strangulate ♦ throttle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "strangle": STRANGLE GOOSE ♦ TO THROTTLE. (references)

Etymologies containing "strangle": String. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And then, we are going to strangle them with their own-living-guts! (Halo: Combat Evolved; writing credit: Brannon Boren; Matt Soell) I should strangle you as a favor to your father. (Holocaust; writing credit: Gerald Green) People with fat necks are impossible to strangle. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) Someone's got to don the oven mitts of all that's right and strangle the red-hot throat of all that's wrong. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) No I don't wanna talk, I want to bloody strangle someone! (Halifax f.p: The Spider and the Fly; writing credit: Peter Gawler)
Lyrics	Mic in a strangle hold sweat pourin' (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Slowly strangle all political rapists : the story of the Voters' Vendetta (reference) Strangle Hold (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Peek-a-Boo... then I Strangle You! (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Strangle All the Boybands (reference) Strangle Hold (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Russia	While Russian suppliers have a relative strangle hold on the OEM market for new vehicles, the aftermarket is receptive to U.S. products. (references)
Human Rights	Cameroon	One of the gendarmes seized Nyemeck's tie and tried to strangle him while the other gendarmes beat him. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	But we must do more than break up trusts and monopolies after they have begun to strangle competition.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Strangle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.27% of the time. "Strangle" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	86.27%	88	35,154
Lexical Verb (base form)	10.78%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	2.94%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	102	N/A

Expressions using "strangle": strangle hold ♦ strangle oneself. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "strangle": strangle-hold, strangle-tight, strangle-voiced.
	Ending with "strangle": half-strangle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "strangle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, press, restrict, screw, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, tighten, vice, wring), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, suffocate, throttle, wreck), i zë frymën (overlie, squeeze, stifle, suffocate, wind). (various references)

Arabic		‏قيد الحريات, ‏خنق (asphyxiate, choke, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏إختنق (asphyxiate, choke, smother, stifle, suffocate), ‏شنق (be executed, gibbet, hang up, hanging, strangulation). (various references)

Bulgarian		удушавам (mug, stifle, strangulate, suffocate), сподавям (repress, stifle), задушавам се (strangulate, suffocate), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, choke, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stew, stifle, suffocate, throttle), потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, squash, subdue, suppress, tread down), давя (bait, choke, drown, worry). (various references)

Chinese		扼杀 (strangled, strangles, strangling), �' (rein in). (various references)

Czech		zardousit, uškrtit (throttle). (various references)

Danish		kvæle (choke). (various references)

Dutch		wurgen (choke), worgen (choke), choken (choke). (various references)

Esperanto		strangoli (choke). (various references)

Faeroese		kyrkja (choke), kvala (choke, quell, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Farsi		گلوی کسی رافشردن , خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle). (various references)

Finnish		strangle-strategia (combination). (various references)

French		strangle, s'étrangler, plateau-straddle, plateau straddle, pendre (string up), combinaison, étrangler (strangulate). (various references)

Frisian		wurgje (choke), wjirgje (choke). (various references)

German		strangulieren (to strangle), erwürgen (choke, quell, strangulation, suffocate, suppress, throttle), erdrosseln (choke, quell, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to strangle). (various references)

Greek		στραγγαλίζω (choke, garrotte, scrag, strangulate, throttle). (various references)

Hebrew		לש� וץ (fasten, lace, tie, tighten), לח� וק (choke, garrote, stifle, strangulate), ל�"ח� יק (asphyxiate, choke, smother, stifle). (various references)

Hungarian		megfojt (asphyxiate, suffocate, throttle, to asphyxiate, to choke, to garotte, to garrotte, to scrag, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to suffocate, to throttle), fojt (choke, to deaden, to tamp, to wad). (various references)

Indonesian		mencekikkan, mencekik (choke, garotte), memujutkan, memujut. (various references)

Italian		strozzare (choke, narrow, strangling, throttle, thrushes), strangolare (choke, retch, strangulate), strangle (combination), combinazione (arrangement, coincidence, combination, combine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		絞め殺す (to strangle to death), 絞める (to constrict, to strangle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くびり�"ろす (to strangle to death), くび�'しめる (to strangle, to wring the neck), しめ�"ろす (to strangle, to strangle to death), しめる (to account for, to be damp, to be wet, to become wet, to close, to comprise, to constrict, to fasten, to hold, to make up, to occupy, to shut, to strangle, to tie). (various references)

Manx		toghtey (choke, choking, clog, clogging, dyspnoea, foul, garrotte, jugulate; strangling, strangulation, throttle, throttling), toghtaghey (throttling). (various references)

Papiamen		choka (choke). (various references)

Pig Latin		anglestray

Portuguese		estrangular (choke, emote, garotte, garrotte, mug, quell, scrag, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Romanian		sugruma (Burke, choke, jugulate, smother, stifle, suppress, throttle), strangula (Burke, choke, garrotte, throttle), strânge de gât, se sufoca (choke, gag, smother, stifle), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, suffocate), reduce la tãcere (extinguish, floor, put down, put to silence, reduce to silence, silence, squelch, talk down), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, subside, taboo, withhold), gâtui (choke, narrow down, throttle), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian		душить (choke, scent, smother, smothers, stifle, stifle joint, strangles, strangulate, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Scottish		tachd (choke, stop up. See <A HREF="mf12.html#tac">tac</A>), tac (a lease). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Spanish		estrangular (choke, strangulate, throttle). (various references)

Sranan		yokro (choke). (various references)

Swedish		strypa (choke, garrotte, scrag, strangulate, throttle). (various references)

Turkish		boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, choke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother, smother with, stifle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm), boğazlamak (butcher, choke, garotte, garrote, slaughter). (various references)

Ukrainian		задушення (choke, strangulation, suffocation), задушити (jugulate, smother), задихатися (asphyxiate, choke, gasp, pant, smother, stifle, suffocate, throttle), придушувати (deject, depress, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, stamp out, suppress). (various references)

Welsh		tagu (asphyxiate, choke, stifle), llindagu (choke, throttle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	strangalan. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	angebat, astrangulare, elidantur, elidatur, elides, elidet, elidit, elisa, elisabeth, elisi, elisisti, elisit, elisus, helisu, strangulare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 18, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Dia ge to parecein moi kopon thn chran tauthn ekdikhsw authn ina mh eiV teloV ercomenh upwpiazh me
Latin	405	Vulgate	Tamen quia molesta est mihi haec vidua vindicabo illam ne in novissimo veniens suggillet me
Old English	990	West Saxon	þeah forþam þe ðeos wuduwe me is gram ic wrece hig. þe læs heo æt neahstan cume me behropende;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Netheles for this widowe is heuy, `or diseseful, to me, I schal venge hir; lest at the laste sche comynge strangle me.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Yet because this wedowe troubleth me I will avenge her lest at the laste she come and hagge on me.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 18, Verse 5
Cebuano	apan kay nagasamok man kanako kining babayeng balo, ako na lang siyang panalipdan basi unya hinoon maugtas ako sa iyang kanunayng pagbalikbalik.`"
Chinese	只 � 這寡婦煩 �"� 我、我就給他伸冤罷．免得他常來纏磨我。
Croatian	jer mi udovica ova dodijava, obranit æu je da vjeèno ne dolazi muèiti me.'"
Danish	så vil jeg dog, efterdi denne Enke volder mig Besvær, skaffe Hende Ret, for at hun ikke uophørligt skal komme og plage mig."
Dutch	Nochtans, omdat deze weduwe mij moeielijk valt, zo zal ik haar recht doen, opdat zij niet eindelijk kome, en mij het hoofd breke.
Finnish	niin kuitenkin, koska tämä leski tuottaa minulle vaivaa, minä autan hänet oikeuteensa, ettei hän lopulta tulisi ja kävisi minun silmilleni`."
French	néanmoins, parce que cette veuve m`importune, je lui ferai justice, afin qu`elle ne vienne pas sans cesse me rompre la tête.
German	dieweil aber mir diese Witwe so viel Mühe macht, will ich sie retten, auf daß sie nicht zuletzt komme und betäube mich.
Haitian Creole	Men, fanm sa a ap plede nwi mwen. M'ap rann li jistis, konsa la sispann anbete mwen.
Hungarian	Mindazáltal mivelhogy nékem terhemre van ez az özvegyasszony, megszabadítom õt, hogy szüntelen reám járván, ne gyötörjön engem.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	tetapi karena janda ini terus saja mengganggu saya, lebih baik saya membela perkaranya. Kalau tidak, ia akan terus-menerus datang dan menyusahkan saya.'"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	tetapi sebab janda ini menyusahkan aku, biarlah aku membenarkan dia, supaya jangan lagi akhirnya ia mengaduhi aku."
Maori	Heoi ka porearea ahau i te pouaru nei, na ka takitakina e ahau tona mate, kei haere tonu mai ka mate ahau i te hoha.
Norwegian	vil jeg dog hjelpe denne enke til å få rett fordi hun gjør mig uleilighet, så hun ikke til slutt skal komme og legge hånd på mig.
Portuguese	todavia, como esta viúva me incomoda, hei de fazer-lhe justiça, para que ela não continue a vir molestar-me.
Rumanian	totuw, pentru cq vqduva aceasta mq tot necqjewte, ki voi face dreptate, ca sq nu tot vinq sq-mi batq capul.`
Russian	ОП, ЛБЛ ЬФБ Ч�"ПЧБ ОЕ �"БЕФ НОЕ � ПЛПС, ЪБЭЙЭХ ЕЕ, ЮФП�'Щ ПОБ ОЕ � ТЙИП�"ЙМБ �'ПМШЫЕ �"ПЛХЮБФШ НОЕ.
Shuar	Warí niisha tuke taa itit awajtatsuk. Tuma asamtai niin kajerkaij tusan Wárik Túrattajai" timiai" Tímiayi.
Spanish	le haré justicia a esta viuda, porque no me deja de molestar; para que no venga continuamente a cansarme.'"
Swahili	lakini kwa vile huyu mjane ananisumbua, nitamtetea; la sivyo ataendelea kufika hapa, na mwisho atanichosha kabisa!"`
Swedish	likväl, eftersom denna änka är mig så besvärlig, vill jag ändå skaffa henne rätt, för att hon icke med sina ideliga besök skall alldeles pina ut mig.'"
Uma	agina kutulungi lau-imi tobalu toei, apa' najojo rahi tumai mposaleroi-a. Apa' ane uma kutulungi-i, uma oa' mpai' nabahakai tumai, alaa-na kupo'oha lau wo'o-kuwo mpai'.'"
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "strangle": strangled, stranglehold, strangleholds, strangler, stranglers, strangles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Strangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sprengel, Stangl, strangge, strunggle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "strangle" (pronounced stra"nggul)
6	-r a" ng g u l	wrangle.
5	-a" ng g u l	angle, bangle, dangle, disentangle, entangle, jangle, mangle, Spangle, tangle, untangle, wangle.
4	-ng g u l	antifungal, commingle, Dingle, fungal, Ingle, intermingle, jingle, jungle, Mangel, mingle, mongol, rectangle, shingle, single, swingle, tingle, triangle.
3	-g u l	algal, bagel, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, conjugal, eagle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, jiggle, juggle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, milligal, mogul, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, regal, smuggle, snuggle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, struggle, toggle, wiggle, wriggle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tanglers.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: anglers, antlers, argents, garnets, gelants, largest, rentals, saltern, sternal, strange, tangler, tangles.
	-2 letters: agents, aglets, alerts, alters, angels, angers, angler, angles, antler, antres, argent, argles, artels, astern, estral, garnet, gaster, gelant, glares, gleans, gnarls, grants, grates, greats, lagers, larges, laster, latens, learns, learnt, ranges, ratels, regnal, rental, retags, salter, sanger, slater, stager.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: gnarliest, integrals, reslating, strangely, strangled, strangler, strangles, triangles, twanglers.
	+2 letters: earthlings, entanglers, generalist, granulates, granulites, plastering, rectangles, resaluting, retailings, slathering, starveling, stranglers.
	+3 letters: arrestingly, cartelising, everlasting, gallantries, generalists, glabrescent, goaltenders, martingales, misaltering, misrelating, outgenerals, oversalting, plaistering, plasterings, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, relegations, splattering, starvelings, strangulate, trailerings, trigeminals.
	+4 letters: angularities, astringently, centralising, centrifugals, earsplitting, egalitarians, enlargements, everlastings, farthingales, forestalling, generalities, glycerinates, granulocytes, gratefulness, laryngitides, libertinages, manslaughter, mineralogist, neutralising, nightwalkers, plantigrades, realignments, reescalating, regionalists, reinstalling, replastering, revitalising, scatteringly, shatteringly, slaughtering, staggeringly, steamrolling, stranglehold, strangulated, strangulates, streamlining, stringhalted, talebearings, triangulates.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
strangle	159	girl strangle	3
neck strangle	23	asphyxia strangle	3
strangle hold	14	sleepy strangle	3
fetish strangle	11	her strangle	2
sex strangle	6	horror strangle	2
female strangle	5	jorgen strangle von	2
erotic strangle	5	option strangle	2
exotic strangle woman	4	strangle video	2
elona strangle	4	clip strangle	2
pic strangle	4	strangle wire	2
asphyxia erotic girl strangle	4	female neck strangle	2
murder sex strangle strangled strangler strangling	3	strangle woman	2
hand strangle	3	someone strangle	2
asphyx strangle	3	psycho strangle thriller	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Strangle

Definition: Strangle

Strangle

Verb

Specialty Definition: Strangle

Synonyms: Strangle

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Contraction

Impotence

Killing

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