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Definition: Strangler |
StranglerNoun1. An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree. 2. Someone who kills by strangling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strangler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
Synonyms: StranglerSynonyms: choker (n), garroter (n), garrotter (n), strangler tree (n), throttler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Strangler |
| English words defined with "strangler": Ficus aurea, Florida strangler fig ♦ golden fig ♦ strangler fig ♦ wild fig. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know, you're the spitting image of the Aberdeen strangler. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) He's doing for the Squad what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen! (The Sweeney; writing credit: Brian Faull; John Martin) I was falsely accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds, whereas in fact it was me, and me alone, who was responsible for bringing the Bournemouth Strangler to his just desserts. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) You're quite a good chicken strangler as I recall! (Rope; writing credit: Patrick Hamilton; Hume Cronyn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night Strangler (1973) Night of the Strangler (1972) Las Vegas Strangler (1968) Teen-Age Strangler (1965) The Strangler (1964) | |
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| "Strangler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Strangler" is used about 13 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "strangler": Florida strangler fig ♦ strangler fig ♦ strangler tree. Additional references. | |
| 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 "strangler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удушвач (choker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扼杀者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خفه کننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | chaussette spinnaker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Würger (shrike, shrikes, slayer, stranglers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραγγαλιστήσ (garrotter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מש ק אויר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fojtogató (garrotter, smothery, stifling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencekik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | guaina dello spinnaker (dowser, sally, snuffer, sock, spinnaker sleeve, squeezer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교살자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | toghteyder (garrotter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anglerstray дроссель (choke, reactor, throttle). (various references) estrangulador (throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strangler": stranglers. (additional references) | |
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"Strangler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estrangler, surangular, trangler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strangler" (pronounced stra"nggler) |
| 5 | -a" ng g l er | angler, wangler. |
| 4 | -ng g l er | bungler. |
| 3 | -g l er | burglar, finagler, kegler, smuggler, straggler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: granters, regrants, stranger, strangle, tanglers. | |
-2 letters: anglers, antlers, argents, errants, garners, garnets, garrets, garters, gelants, granter, graters, largest, rangers, ranters, regrant, rentals, saltern, snarler, sternal, strange, tangler, tangles. | |
-3 letters: agents, aglets, alerts, alters, angels, angers, angler, angles, antler, antres, argent, argles, arrest, artels, astern, errant, estral, garner, garnet, garret, garter, gaster, gelant, glares. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: stranglers. | |
+2 letters: arrestingly, trailerings. | |
+3 letters: replastering. | |
+4 letters: granularities, narratologies, reregulations, retranslating. | |
+5 letters: antiguerrillas, bremsstrahlung, conglomerators, steamrollering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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