different between strangle vs garrot

English

Etymology

From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangul?, strangul?re, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from ????????? (strangál?, “a halter”); compare ???????? (strangós, “twisted”). Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?æ??(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?æ???l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l
• Hyphenation: stran?gle

Verb

strangle (third-person singular simple present strangles, present participle strangling, simple 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.

2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.

3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Derived terms

• strangle the parrot
• strangleable
• stranglehold
• stranglement
• strangler
• strangling

Related terms

• strangulate
• strangulation

Translations

Noun

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.

See also

• asphyxiate
• choke
• gag
• querk
• suffocate
• throttle

Further reading

• strangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• strangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• strangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Largents, langrets, tanglers, trangles

English

Etymology 1

French garrot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??t/

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

   The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. Alternative form of garrote

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Anagrams

• Rogart

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???r?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?r?t/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. club, truncheon

   Synonym: bastó

2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

Derived terms

• garrotar

Further reading

• “garrot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?o/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. tourniquet
2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
3. garrote
4. goldeneye (duck)
5. withers

Related terms

• garroter

Descendants

• Spanish: garrote

Further reading

• “garrot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).