Definition of "strangle"

strangle

/ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
  Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]An adjective use.
  1626, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, page 165
noun
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.