Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which strangles or destroys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, strangles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
strangles , especially whomurders bystrangling - noun an
epiphyte whoseaerial roots eventually strangle thetree on which it grows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who kills by strangling
- noun an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
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Examples
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A strangler is a work, along with a couple of mobsters named Flash and Dip.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Double Z - Maxwell Grant Blue Tyson 2006
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A strangler is a work, along with a couple of mobsters named Flash and Dip.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Crime Cult - Maxwell Grant Blue Tyson 2006
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Copyright Wars denounced certain copyright owners who once analogized a copying technology to a "strangler" -- and then six times accused copyright owners of trying to "kill,"
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The banyan replaced the Hanging Elm in Washington Square Park as my favorite tree, because it isn't so much a tree as a tree monster, a macabre tangle of branches oozing to the ground so as to support ever more branches, threatening to squeeze to death anything in its path, a tendency that earned it the cute nickname "strangler fig."
Aloha? More Like Boo! Sarah Vowell 2011
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If so, he should have concluded that the strangler was a non-secretor — and so excluded Carlton Gary as the source of the semen.
The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007
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The strangler was a trace of shadow, and yes! he was cutting across, through the rope factory itself!
The Burning City Larry Niven 2000
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The strangler was a trace of shadow, and yes! he was cutting across, through the rope factory itself!
The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000
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That thought continues to send chills down the spines of people in Kensington, where the strangler is a constant source of discussion and fear.
Phillies Zone 2010
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minouchette commented on the word strangler
what a spendthrift isn't
October 8, 2010