strangle — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Động từ

1. To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   scrag

   Ví dụ

   She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.

2. To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

3. To stifle or suppress.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   He strangled a scream.

4. To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

   Ví dụ

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

   Ví dụ

   Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

   Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]

Danh từ

1. 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.

   Từ liên quan

   asphyxiatechokegagquerksuffocatethrottle

Động từ

1. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   strangulatethrottle

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   kill

   Ví dụ

   he tried to strangulate his opponent

   A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes

2. suppress in order to conceal or hide

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   smotherstiflemufflerepress

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   inhibitbottle upsuppress

   Ví dụ

   smother a yawn

   muffle one's anger

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   strangle a laugh

   repress a cry of fear

3. die from strangulation

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   suffocatestifleasphyxiate

4. prevent the progress or free movement of

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   hamperhaltercramp

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   restricttrammellimitboundconfinethrottle

   Ví dụ

   He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather

   the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries

5. constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   choke

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   compressconstrictsqueezecompactcontractpress

6. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   gagchokesuffocate

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   sufferhurtache

   Ví dụ

   he swallowed a fishbone and gagged