verb To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
verb To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
verb To stifle or suppress.
He strangled a scream.
verb To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
verb To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
noun 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.