different between strangulation vs strangle

English

Etymology

From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.

Noun

strangulation (countable and uncountable, plural strangulations)

1. The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
2. The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.

Translations

Related terms

• strangle
• strangulate

Further reading

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

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