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straungle

straungle is the obsolete spelling of strangle.

Meaning of strangle

Verb

strangle (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.
    • She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
    Synonyms:
    scrag
  2. (transitive) To choke, suffocate or throttle, whether the victim survives or not.
  3. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
    • He strangled a scream.
  4. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
    • The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
  5. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
    • 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...

See all 6 meanings of strangle

Forms of straungle

third-person singular presentstraungles
present participlestraungling
past participlestraungled
paststraungled

Questions about straungle

What is straungle the obsolete spelling of?
Straungle is the obsolete spelling of strangle.

Words near straungle in the dictionary

  1. straughts
  2. Straumsnes
  3. straung
  4. straunger
  5. straungers
  6. straungle
  7. straurosporine
  8. Straus
  9. Strausbaugh
  10. Strausbaughs
  11. Strause

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Adapted from Wiktionary: straungle (page history and authors); strangle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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