Word Finder - strangle

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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.

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To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

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He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.

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To stifle or suppress.

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She strangled a scream.

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To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

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The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.

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To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Darian wanted to strangle the Other.

I told him I didn't know anything and he tried to strangle me.

For a minute, I thought he was going to strangle me to death.

The Guelph is persuaded that the Ghibeffines wifi annihilate freedom and strangle commerce.

The victim was a condemned murderer; the man paid to strangle him was the common hangman.

Will the Whips try to strangle independence on the new select committees by putting party stooges in as chairs.

Cox bursts down the wing The second half was a scrappy affair in which neither side managed to gain much of a strangle hold.

Also double check any bedspread for attachments like strings or buttons that could either strangle or choke your child.

Something within him clicked, and he recalled his resolve not to let the woman in his life strangle him anymore.

As much as he wanted to welcome the information of his healing planet, he also wanted to strangle the men impregnating his family members.

Even the Eskimos, conspicuous as they are for their intelligence and sociability, save themselves the trouble of caring for their sick and old by walling them up and leaving them to die in a lonely hut; the Chukches stone or strangle them to death; some Indian tribes give them over to tigers, and the Battas of Sumatra eat them.

He appears to find perverse sexual gratification out of encouraging Othello to strangle Desdemona, as if he was anticipating a snuff movie!

He seeks only for peace, and only these people sans foi ni loi * can give it him--people who recklessly hack at and strangle everything--Magnitski, Arakcheev, and tutti quanti....

Bed rails that are too far apart can possibly strangle a child.

Although many parents worry that their baby might strangle or choke if he or she spits-up while on her back, there is no evidence to support this theory.

Before I could, the door was kicked open I was grabbed about the neck in a strangle hold that gagged me and a knife jabbed upward under my chin!

The women members were common property; the period of cohabitation was limited to three days, and the female Areois were bound by oath at initiation to strangle at birth any child born to them.

The result was the publication, in 1349, of the Zakonik Tsara Dushana (Tsar Dushan's Book of Laws), a code of great historical interest which proves that Servia was not much behind the foremost European states in 1 Dushan is a term of endearment, derived from dusha, "the soul," and not, as formerly believed by Western philologists, from dushiti, " to strangle."