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strangle

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As a verb, strangle means kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply. As a noun, it means 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.

Meanings of strangle

9 meanings

verb

To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
“He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.”
To stifle or suppress.
“She strangled a scream.”
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
“The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.”
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
Suppress in order to conceal or hide
“smother a yawn”
“muffle one's anger”
“strangle a laugh”
Similar: smother, stifle, muffle, repress
Prevent the progress or free movement of
“He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather”
“the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries”
Similar: hamper, halter, cramp
Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathingbody
Similar: choke
Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intakebody
“he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”
Similar: gag, choke, suffocate

noun

financeA 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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