To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
To stifle or suppress.
He strangled a scream.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
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.
From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”...
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