strangle
/ˈstɹeɪ̯ŋɡəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
Example Sentences
- "She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid."
- "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."
- "He strangled a scream."
- "The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar."
- "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; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English worien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stranglen, estrangler, strangulō, στραγγαλόομαι
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɹeɪ̯ŋɡəl/