stranglev.

Brit.

/ˈstraŋɡl/, U.S.

/ˈstræŋɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English strangel(le, strangul, Middle English, 1500s strangil, Middle English strangli, strang(e)lyn, 1500s strangyll, straungle, strongle, 1600s strengle, Middle English– strangle. See also astrangle v., estrangle v.

Etymology: < Old French estrangler (modern French étrangler) = Provençal estranglar, estrangolar, Spanish estrangular, Portuguese estrangular, Italian strangolare, strangulare < Latin strangulāre, < Greek στραγγαλᾶν, < στραγγάλη halter, cognate with στραγγός twisted.

a. transitive. To kill by external compression of the throat, esp. by means of a rope or the like passed round the neck.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by strangling

aworryc885

achokeOE

astrangle1297

strangle13..

worry14..

choke1303

weary1340

gnarec1380

athroatc1400

enstranglec1400

gagc1440

throttlec1450

estrangle1483

stifle1548

snarl1563

thrapple1570

quackle1622

bowstring1803

scrag1823

strangulate1846

mug1866

to screw a person's neck1872

garrotte1878

guzzle1885

to screw an animal's neck1888

13.. K. Alis. 5305 The other lep on an olyfaunt,..And strangled hym in litel stounde.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 972 Ne here helpe hadde be, þat was so nere, Þe hand me hadde strangled here.

1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 33 Þe kyng tok þis pantelere, & strangled him right þore.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 8408 Þai [sc. the damned] salle be fulle..Of hatred..Swa þat ilk ane wald with other fyght, And strangelle other, if þai myght.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 476 Knytte þis coorde to mannus þrote & it myȝte soone strangle þis man.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 8245 Thys gorger..strangleth me almost vp ryht, That I may nat speke a-ryht.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 238 This name Jhesus..Is for to seyne..Our strong Sampson that stranglyd the lioun.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 4 She henge her-self, and was strangelid to deth.

c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 132 He..drewe the rope so fast, that was aboute his nek, that he had strangild him, had not his folkes cried on him, and seide that it was the hangmans office,..to do so foul a dede.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 249 Your brother Gerarde [ought] to be hanged and strangled.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 738/2 He held me so harde by the throote that he hade allmost stranglyd me.

1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Lv^v This Narcissus then accordyngly entered into the chaumbre of Comodus, and by force strangled him to deathe.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1229/2 Tindall..was..then strangled first by the hangman, and afterward with fire consumed.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. vi. f. 107^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I He is eyther hanged aliue in chaynes..(or else first strangeled with a rope).

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 129 He shall present Hercules in minoritie: his enter and exit shalbe strangling a Snake.

a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. H 2 Hoff...Weapons draw blood... Lor. Then strangle her, here is a towell sir.

1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster v. 57 Vnlesse it be some snake, or something like your selfe, That in his birth shall strengle you.

1663 Unfort. Usurper iv. iv. 50 He strangles Alexius with the Bowstring.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 155 The barbarous murder of Sir Edmund Bery-Godfry, found strangled about this time.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 52 Our Saxon Ancestors compelled the Adulteress to strangle herself.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 134 As for small birds, they are its usual food. It seizes them by the throat, and strangles them in an instant.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 327 The os uteri encircled round the neck of the fœtus like a collar, insomuch that the fœtus was strangled.

1892 R. Buchanan Come, live with Me iii. 30 Geoffrey's fingers itched to strangle him out of life.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1591 H. Smith Trumpet of Soule sig. A5^v Strangle sinne in thy cradle, for all the wisedome in the world wil not help thee else.

1678 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1707) xvi. 249 If this be the way to reconcile us to their Communion, have we not great reason to be fond of returning into the Bosom of such a Church which may strangle us as soon as it gets us within her Arms?

1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon x. 179 They would be eager to strangle this insurrection in the birth.

c. To constrict painfully (the neck or throat).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke > by external compression of throat

choke1303

stranglec1450

grane1613

c1450 Mirk's Festial 79 Þat þrote þat spake þe wordes of traytery..was ystrangled with þe grynne of a rope.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hij I haue a throte bolle almoste strangled .i. snarled or quarkennyd with extreme hunger.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 355 The cravat has passed out of memory..and the ‘stock’ is only to be seen occasionally strangling the neck of a stout City magnate.

†d. intransitive. To be at close grips, to struggle with.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight at close quarters > grapple

buckle1535

strangle1595

ingrapple1599

grapple1825

clinch1828

1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine i. i. 29 In vaine, therefore, I strangle [1664 struggle] with this foe.

a. transitive. In wider sense: To kill by stoppage of breath; to smother, suffocate, choke. Now rare. to strangle down (nonce-use): of a whirlpool, to choke as it engulfs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by smothering or suffocation

smorec725

athrysmc885

stranglea1300

overliea1382

forliea1400

to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400

overlayc1425

querken1440

smoulder1481

suffoke1490

stiflea1535

smoor1535

smother1548

suffocate1599

asphyxiate1835

asphyxy1843

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke

stranglea1300

chokec1380

worrya1400

stiflec1400

to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400

scomfishc1480

to choke up1555

grane1613

suffocatea1616

a1300 Havelok 640 Y was þe[r]-with [i.e. with a gag] so harde prangled, Þat i was þe[r]-with ney strangled.

c1450 Brut ii. 352 Þei token þe fetherbed..and cast hit aboue hym;..and sum lay vpon þe fethir bed apon hym, vnto þe tyme þat he were ded... And þus þei strangled þis worthi Duk vn[to] the deth.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 5 An ensample how the auaricious man ete iiii pyeces of golde and how the fourthe strangled hym.

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxiii. 173 Some etynge haue be strangled.

1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes L ij If a liuinge Mullet be put into wine and choked or strangled therin, whatsoeuer man drinketh of the same wyne, shall [etc.].

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 34 Shall I not then be stiffled in the Vault?.. And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes.

1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 40 He was strangled under a feather bedde.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Damps We read of a Well..into which a Mason, at Work near its Brink, letting fall his Hammer, a Labourer, who was sent down to recover it, e're he reach'd the Water, was strangled.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 189 With Necessity's vortices strangling me down!

1888 Spectator 14 Jan. 49 Over a territory of ten thousand square miles..the soft water passed, silently strangling every living thing.

†b. To kill by poison or the like; rarely, by the sword. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by poisoning

envenomc1300

venomc1330

poisonc1350

empoisona1375

stranglec1374

intoxicatec1450

impotionate1570

strike1592

to fig away1609

hemlock1846

strychninea1871

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. pr. iv. 19 Al þouȝ I hadde ben accused þat I wolde..strangle [L. ingulare] prestys wiþ wicked swerde [etc.].

c1443 J. Lydgate in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 214 Hanybal,..At the laste, stranglyd with poisoun, Of marcial ire koude lyve nevir in pees.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xv. 3 The swearde shal strangle them [Luther Mit dem Schwerdt, dass sie erwürget werden].

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 407 Or they come he was nearhand strangled to death be the extreme melancollie.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 That I should drop strong poyson in the boawle,..That it should worke..And strangle him on sodaine.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 237 Galen saith if it be eaten without Hony, water, and salt, it curdleth in the belly of a man like a cheese and strangleth him.

†c. said of a wild beast, a devil. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]

swevec725

quelmeOE

slayc893

quelleOE

of-falleOE

ofslayeOE

aquellc950

ayeteeOE

spillc950

beliveOE

to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE

fordoa1000

forfarea1000

asweveOE

drepeOE

forleseOE

martyrOE

to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE

bringc1175

off-quellc1175

quenchc1175

forswelta1225

adeadc1225

to bring of daysc1225

to do to deathc1225

to draw (a person) to deathc1225

murder?c1225

aslayc1275

forferec1275

to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275

martyrc1300

strangle1303

destroya1325

misdoa1325

killc1330

tailc1330

to take the life of (also fro)c1330

enda1340

to kill to (into, unto) death1362

brittena1375

deadc1374

to ding to deathc1380

mortifya1382

perisha1387

to dight to death1393

colea1400

fella1400

kill out (away, down, up)a1400

to slay up or downa1400

swelta1400

voida1400

deliverc1400

starvec1425

jugylc1440

morta1450

to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480

to put offc1485

to-slaya1500

to make away with1502

to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503

rida1513

to put downa1525

to hang out of the way1528

dispatch?1529

strikea1535

occidea1538

to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540

to fling to deathc1540

extinct1548

to make out of the way1551

to fet offa1556

to cut offc1565

to make away?1566

occise1575

spoil1578

senda1586

to put away1588

exanimate1593

unmortalize1593

speed1594

unlive1594

execute1597

dislive1598

extinguish1598

to lay along1599

to make hence1605

conclude1606

kill off1607

disanimate1609

feeze1609

to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611

to kill dead1615

transporta1616

spatch1616

to take off1619

mactate1623

to make meat of1632

to turn up1642

inanimate1647

pop1649

enecate1657

cadaverate1658

expedite1678

to make dog's meat of1679

to make mincemeat of1709

sluice1749

finisha1753

royna1770

still1778

do1780

deaden1807

deathifyc1810

to lay out1829

cool1833

to use up1833

puckeroo1840

to rub out1840

cadaverize1841

to put under the sod1847

suicide1852

outkill1860

to fix1875

to put under1879

corpse1884

stiffen1888

tip1891

to do away with1899

to take out1900

stretch1902

red-light1906

huff1919

to knock rotten1919

skittle1919

liquidate1924

clip1927

to set over1931

creasea1935

ice1941

lose1942

to put to sleep1942

zap1942

to take down1967

wax1968

trash1973

ace1975

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3189 For me ys come þe fende of helle... Ryȝt now shal he me strangle and cheke, Ne shal y neuer aftyr speke.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 688 Þat ich niȝt þe deuel com & strangled hir owhen grom.

1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 768 They been the deueles wolues that stranglen the sheepe of Ihesu crist.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 197 The Jew..strangled was of a leoun.

c1400 Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 243 Þere seuen hungri lyouns weren þereinne all ydytte, ffor þai hym strangli scholden.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1160 Yet saugh I..The hunte strangled with the wilde beres.

1447 O. Bokenham Agnes in Lyvys Seyntys 394 Þe deuyl hym stranglyd in þat place.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xvi. 102 Hym sholde seme anon in his slepe dremyng that all the deuyllis of helle shold come to hym and strangle hym.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xiv The lyon wold haue strangled hym.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 122 This Country dos so abound with Wolves, that a sheepheard whom I met told us, one of his Companions was strangled by one but the day before.

1751 Gentleman's Mag. 21 555 A sort of wolves, which attack..children, of whom they have already strangled and devoured about thirty.

absolute.1611 Bible (King James) Nahum ii. 12 The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses.

a. transferred. To choke, hinder the growth of (a plant) by crowding; †to stifle, quench (a fire, heat) (obsolete); to impede the action of (an internal bodily organ) by compression; to suppress (a laugh, a yawn).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > hinder growth of other plants [verb (transitive)] > strangle or choke

stranglec1384

choke1526

stock1765

strangulate1835

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > a person, the body, or its heat

coolc1330

strangle?1527

refrigeratea1535

ventilate1805

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] > choke or smother (a fire)

strangle?1527

choke1528

queasom1561

slake?1567

smothera1591

damp1706

stifle1726

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > make moderate (behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > suppress (an action)

suppressa1538

strangle1829

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > cause disorders of internal organs [verb (transitive)] > constrict

strangulate1875

strangle1897

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 7 Forsothe other seedis felden amonge thornis; and the thornis wexen vp, and strangliden hem [L. suffocaverunt ea].

?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns i. iii. 6 b Therfore kynde hete is theked and straungled.

?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns ii. iv. 21 And moche water quencheth & cheketh & strangleth feble fyre.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. To Indifferent Rdr. sig. a 6 Like the Iuy alwaies greene, because not set to bring forth fruit vnto saluation, but rather to choake and strangle the plants of life.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Byth' Clock 'tis Day, And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. ii. 97 As a lampe is choaked with a multitude of oyle,..so is the naturall heat with immoderate eating strangled in the body.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 387 Young Trees will be strangled with..any rank growing Corn or Weeds, if [etc.].

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. ix. 237 The poor King..saw..the fatal cabinet..and dolefully calculated how many yawns he must strangle ere he sustained the consideration of its contents.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 476 The presence of large quantities of this intrusive substance strangling the secreting structures.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 788 [The symptoms] occur..also where the heart is strangled and compressed by dense fibrous thickening.

b. figurative with various notions. To prevent the growth or rise of; to hamper or destroy by excessive restrictions; to suppress. Also with off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)

shendOE

whelvec1000

allayOE

ofdrunkenc1175

quenchc1175

quashc1275

stanchc1315

quella1325

slockena1340

drenchc1374

vanquishc1380

stuffa1387

daunt?a1400

adauntc1400

to put downa1425

overwhelmc1425

overwhelvec1450

quatc1450

slockc1485

suppressa1500

suffocate1526

quealc1530

to trample under foot1530

repress1532

quail1533

suppress1537

infringe1543

revocate1547

whelm1553

queasom1561

knetcha1564

squench1577

restinguish1579

to keep down1581

trample1583

repel1592

accable1602

crush1610

to wrestle down?1611

chokea1616

stranglea1616

stifle1621

smother1632

overpower1646

resuppress1654

strangulate1665

instranglea1670

to choke back, down, in, out1690

to nip or crush in the bud1746

spiflicate1749

squasha1777

to get under1799

burke1835

to stamp out1851

to trample down1853

quelch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

smash1865

garrotte1878

scotch1888

douse1916

to drive under1920

stomp1936

stultify1958

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development

repressa1413

snub1583

smothera1616

stranglea1616

mither1847

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development

repressa1413

snub1583

smothera1616

stranglea1616

throttle1825

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding > with restrictions, etc.

achoke?a1425

repress?1567

chokea1616

stranglea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 47 Be merry (Gentle) Strangle such thoughts as these, with any thing That you behold the while.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O8^v Consuming anguish, styptick bitternesse, Doth now so strangle their imperious will.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 321 It is not fit to debate whether it shall be in the power of any person or persons to strangle the debates and pains of this House.

1661 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) ii. ii. 145 Too inconsiderable to strangle your interests.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes App.: Reasons for Bill 1 As often as a Bill was brought into Parliament for this purpose, it was always encountred with another..and the latter constantly strangled the former.

1898 G. Meredith Napoleon in Odes French Hist. vi Her surest way to strangle thought.

1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War iii. 72 The exclusive privileges retained by the Dutch had almost strangled the trade of Antwerp.

1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 38 The frost has..ruthlessly strangled off the fantasies Of leaves.

4. intransitive. To be choked or suffocated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of suffocation or choking

strangle1338

smore1488

smoor1508

smotherc1528

to choke up1555

stifle1594

throttle1655

suffocate1702

quackle1806

1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 55 I praye God if it wer so I strangle of þis brede.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 8 He could not..lie down in his bed; and if he had assayed to do it, then he should strangle.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxii. 83 He came down..with a surly scowl on his..face, strangling in a tight, cross-barred cravat.

1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae ix. 228 Some foul and ominous nightmare, from the which I would awake strangling.

1897 Bookman Jan. 116/1 Strangling in our starch we can rally him [Byron] familiarly on his limp collars.

Compounds

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† strangle-goose n. slang Obsolete a poulterer (Grose Dict. Vulgar T. 1785).

† strangle-tare n. [translation of Greek ὀροβάγχη, < ὄροβος tare, vetch + ἄγχειν to choke, strangle] Obsolete Turner's name for the Broomrape (Orobanche); by later writers sometimes applied to some other parasitic plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape

choke-weed1548

Orobanche1548

orobe-strangler1562

strangle-tare1562

broomrape1578

choke-wort1620

kill-herb1671

strangle-weed1693

strangle-vetch1796

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 71 It hath the name of Orobanche, that is chokefitche or strangletare.

1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Strangle weede, and Strangle tare, that is Orobanch.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Strangle~tare, a tare that strangles, Vicia lathyroides, and also a plant that strangles a tare, Cuscuta Europæa.

strangle-vetch n. = strangle-tare n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape

choke-weed1548

Orobanche1548

orobe-strangler1562

strangle-tare1562

broomrape1578

choke-wort1620

kill-herb1671

strangle-weed1693

strangle-vetch1796

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 638 Strangle Vetch, or Tare.

strangle-weed n. = strangle-tare n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape

choke-weed1548

Orobanche1548

orobe-strangler1562

strangle-tare1562

broomrape1578

choke-wort1620

kill-herb1671

strangle-weed1693

strangle-vetch1796

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. li. 408 Unto whom it is more contrarious and hurtful than the Strangle-weed, Choak-fitch is to the Flax.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 77 The Broomrapes..have in country places the old name of Strangleweed.

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单词	strangle
释义	stranglen. Brit. /ˈstraŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈstræŋɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: < strangle v. †1. The action of strangling; strangulation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > strangulation stranglec1386 strangling1398 chokingc1440 worrying1483 strangulation1542 throttling1599 wringing1843 mug1862 c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1600 Myn is þe strangle [So Lansd.; other MSS. stranglyng] and hangyng by þe þrote. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 373 Divers lewd traditions..as of Iudas breaking the rope where~with he hung himselfe, directly contrary to Luke, who writeth that he dyed of that strangle. figurative.1641 J. Milton Animadversions 8 An injurious strangle of silence. †2. = strangles n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > glanders, strangles, or farcy farcina1425 mourning of (also on) the chinec1465 farcy1481 strangullion1481 stranyelourc1500 vives?1523 (the) glanders1530 yves1578 avives1600 strangles1600 chine1607 strangle1607 fivesa1616 chine-evil1630 chine-gall1630 chine-glanders1630 mortechien1635 water-farcin1665 vees1672 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 70 For betwixt the Strangle and the Glanders, is but this difference, that [etc.]. 3. = stranglehold n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres swengOE turn?c1225 castc1400 trip1412 fall?a1425 foil1553 collar1581 lock1598 faulx1602 fore-hip1602 forward1602 inturn1602 mare1602 hug1617 disembracement1663 buttock1688 throw1698 back-lock1713 cross-buttock1713 flying horse1713 in holds1713 buttocker1823 chip1823 dogfall1823 cross-buttocker1827 hitch1834 bear hug1837 backfall1838 stop1840 armlock1841 side hug1842 click1846 catch-hold1849 back-breaker1867 back-click1867 snap1868 hank1870 nelson1873 headlock1876 chokehold1886 stranglehold1886 hip lock1888 heave1889 strangle1890 pinfall1894 strangler's grip1895 underhold1895 hammer-lock1897 scissor hold1897 body slam1899 scissors hold1899 armbar1901 body scissors1903 scissors grip1904 waist-hold1904 neck hold1905 scissors1909 hipe1914 oshi1940 oshi-dashi1940 oshi-taoshi1940 pindown1948 lift1958 whip1958 Boston crab1961 grapevine1968 powerbomb1990 1890 E. Hitchcock in Outing Nov. 117/1 The man unfortunate enough to be under the neck-stretching hold of a ‘Nelson’, or in the grip of a ‘strangle’, both of which holds are now usually barred in competition. 1906 in F. R. Toombs How to Wrestle 65 Now we consider a strangle from the rear. Compounds † strangle-halt n. Obsolete ? = stringhalt n. ΚΠ 1624 L. W. C. Verie Perf. Disc. Horse (rev. ed.) sig. D2^v For the Strangle-halt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stranglev. Brit. /ˈstraŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈstræŋɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English strangel(le, strangul, Middle English, 1500s strangil, Middle English strangli, strang(e)lyn, 1500s strangyll, straungle, strongle, 1600s strengle, Middle English– strangle. See also astrangle v., estrangle v. Etymology: < Old French estrangler (modern French étrangler) = Provençal estranglar, estrangolar, Spanish estrangular, Portuguese estrangular, Italian strangolare, strangulare < Latin strangulāre, < Greek στραγγαλᾶν, < στραγγάλη halter, cognate with στραγγός twisted. 1. a. transitive. To kill by external compression of the throat, esp. by means of a rope or the like passed round the neck. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by strangling aworryc885 achokeOE astrangle1297 strangle13.. worry14.. choke1303 weary1340 gnarec1380 athroatc1400 enstranglec1400 gagc1440 throttlec1450 estrangle1483 stifle1548 snarl1563 thrapple1570 quackle1622 bowstring1803 scrag1823 strangulate1846 mug1866 to screw a person's neck1872 garrotte1878 guzzle1885 to screw an animal's neck1888 13.. K. Alis. 5305 The other lep on an olyfaunt,..And strangled hym in litel stounde. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 972 Ne here helpe hadde be, þat was so nere, Þe hand me hadde strangled here. 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 33 Þe kyng tok þis pantelere, & strangled him right þore. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 8408 Þai [sc. the damned] salle be fulle..Of hatred..Swa þat ilk ane wald with other fyght, And strangelle other, if þai myght. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 476 Knytte þis coorde to mannus þrote & it myȝte soone strangle þis man. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 8245 Thys gorger..strangleth me almost vp ryht, That I may nat speke a-ryht. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 238 This name Jhesus..Is for to seyne..Our strong Sampson that stranglyd the lioun. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 4 She henge her-self, and was strangelid to deth. c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 132 He..drewe the rope so fast, that was aboute his nek, that he had strangild him, had not his folkes cried on him, and seide that it was the hangmans office,..to do so foul a dede. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 249 Your brother Gerarde [ought] to be hanged and strangled. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 738/2 He held me so harde by the throote that he hade allmost stranglyd me. 1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Lv^v This Narcissus then accordyngly entered into the chaumbre of Comodus, and by force strangled him to deathe. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1229/2 Tindall..was..then strangled first by the hangman, and afterward with fire consumed. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. vi. f. 107^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I He is eyther hanged aliue in chaynes..(or else first strangeled with a rope). 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 129 He shall present Hercules in minoritie: his enter and exit shalbe strangling a Snake. View more context for this quotation a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. H 2 Hoff...Weapons draw blood... Lor. Then strangle her, here is a towell sir. 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster v. 57 Vnlesse it be some snake, or something like your selfe, That in his birth shall strengle you. 1663 Unfort. Usurper iv. iv. 50 He strangles Alexius with the Bowstring. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 155 The barbarous murder of Sir Edmund Bery-Godfry, found strangled about this time. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 52 Our Saxon Ancestors compelled the Adulteress to strangle herself. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 134 As for small birds, they are its usual food. It seizes them by the throat, and strangles them in an instant. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 327 The os uteri encircled round the neck of the fœtus like a collar, insomuch that the fœtus was strangled. 1892 R. Buchanan Come, live with Me iii. 30 Geoffrey's fingers itched to strangle him out of life. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1591 H. Smith Trumpet of Soule sig. A5^v Strangle sinne in thy cradle, for all the wisedome in the world wil not help thee else. 1678 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1707) xvi. 249 If this be the way to reconcile us to their Communion, have we not great reason to be fond of returning into the Bosom of such a Church which may strangle us as soon as it gets us within her Arms? 1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon x. 179 They would be eager to strangle this insurrection in the birth. c. To constrict painfully (the neck or throat). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke > by external compression of throat choke1303 stranglec1450 grane1613 c1450 Mirk's Festial 79 Þat þrote þat spake þe wordes of traytery..was ystrangled with þe grynne of a rope. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hij I haue a throte bolle almoste strangled .i. snarled or quarkennyd with extreme hunger. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 355 The cravat has passed out of memory..and the ‘stock’ is only to be seen occasionally strangling the neck of a stout City magnate. †d. intransitive. To be at close grips, to struggle with. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight at close quarters > grapple buckle1535 strangle1595 ingrapple1599 grapple1825 clinch1828 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine i. i. 29 In vaine, therefore, I strangle [1664 struggle] with this foe. 2. a. transitive. In wider sense: To kill by stoppage of breath; to smother, suffocate, choke. Now rare. to strangle down (nonce-use): of a whirlpool, to choke as it engulfs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by smothering or suffocation smorec725 athrysmc885 stranglea1300 overliea1382 forliea1400 to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400 overlayc1425 querken1440 smoulder1481 suffoke1490 stiflea1535 smoor1535 smother1548 suffocate1599 asphyxiate1835 asphyxy1843 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke stranglea1300 chokec1380 worrya1400 stiflec1400 to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400 scomfishc1480 to choke up1555 grane1613 suffocatea1616 a1300 Havelok 640 Y was þe[r]-with [i.e. with a gag] so harde prangled, Þat i was þe[r]-with ney strangled. c1450 Brut ii. 352 Þei token þe fetherbed..and cast hit aboue hym;..and sum lay vpon þe fethir bed apon hym, vnto þe tyme þat he were ded... And þus þei strangled þis worthi Duk vn[to] the deth. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 5 An ensample how the auaricious man ete iiii pyeces of golde and how the fourthe strangled hym. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxiii. 173 Some etynge haue be strangled. 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes L ij If a liuinge Mullet be put into wine and choked or strangled therin, whatsoeuer man drinketh of the same wyne, shall [etc.]. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 34 Shall I not then be stiffled in the Vault?.. And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes. View more context for this quotation 1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 40 He was strangled under a feather bedde. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Damps We read of a Well..into which a Mason, at Work near its Brink, letting fall his Hammer, a Labourer, who was sent down to recover it, e're he reach'd the Water, was strangled. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 189 With Necessity's vortices strangling me down! 1888 Spectator 14 Jan. 49 Over a territory of ten thousand square miles..the soft water passed, silently strangling every living thing. †b. To kill by poison or the like; rarely, by the sword. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by poisoning envenomc1300 venomc1330 poisonc1350 empoisona1375 stranglec1374 intoxicatec1450 impotionate1570 strike1592 to fig away1609 hemlock1846 strychninea1871 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. pr. iv. 19 Al þouȝ I hadde ben accused þat I wolde..strangle [L. ingulare] prestys wiþ wicked swerde [etc.]. c1443 J. Lydgate in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 214 Hanybal,..At the laste, stranglyd with poisoun, Of marcial ire koude lyve nevir in pees. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xv. 3 The swearde shal strangle them [Luther Mit dem Schwerdt, dass sie erwürget werden]. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 407 Or they come he was nearhand strangled to death be the extreme melancollie. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A4 That I should drop strong poyson in the boawle,..That it should worke..And strangle him on sodaine. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 237 Galen saith if it be eaten without Hony, water, and salt, it curdleth in the belly of a man like a cheese and strangleth him. †c. said of a wild beast, a devil. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3189 For me ys come þe fende of helle... Ryȝt now shal he me strangle and cheke, Ne shal y neuer aftyr speke. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 688 Þat ich niȝt þe deuel com & strangled hir owhen grom. 1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 768 They been the deueles wolues that stranglen the sheepe of Ihesu crist. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 197 The Jew..strangled was of a leoun. c1400 Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 243 Þere seuen hungri lyouns weren þereinne all ydytte, ffor þai hym strangli scholden. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1160 Yet saugh I..The hunte strangled with the wilde beres. 1447 O. Bokenham Agnes in Lyvys Seyntys 394 Þe deuyl hym stranglyd in þat place. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xvi. 102 Hym sholde seme anon in his slepe dremyng that all the deuyllis of helle shold come to hym and strangle hym. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xiv The lyon wold haue strangled hym. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 122 This Country dos so abound with Wolves, that a sheepheard whom I met told us, one of his Companions was strangled by one but the day before. 1751 Gentleman's Mag. 21 555 A sort of wolves, which attack..children, of whom they have already strangled and devoured about thirty. absolute.1611 Bible (King James) Nahum ii. 12 The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses. View more context for this quotation 3. a. transferred. To choke, hinder the growth of (a plant) by crowding; †to stifle, quench (a fire, heat) (obsolete); to impede the action of (an internal bodily organ) by compression; to suppress (a laugh, a yawn). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > hinder growth of other plants [verb (transitive)] > strangle or choke stranglec1384 choke1526 stock1765 strangulate1835 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > a person, the body, or its heat coolc1330 strangle?1527 refrigeratea1535 ventilate1805 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] > choke or smother (a fire) strangle?1527 choke1528 queasom1561 slake?1567 smothera1591 damp1706 stifle1726 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > make moderate (behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > suppress (an action) suppressa1538 strangle1829 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > cause disorders of internal organs [verb (transitive)] > constrict strangulate1875 strangle1897 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 7 Forsothe other seedis felden amonge thornis; and the thornis wexen vp, and strangliden hem [L. suffocaverunt ea]. ?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns i. iii. 6 b Therfore kynde hete is theked and straungled. ?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns ii. iv. 21 And moche water quencheth & cheketh & strangleth feble fyre. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. To Indifferent Rdr. sig. a 6 Like the Iuy alwaies greene, because not set to bring forth fruit vnto saluation, but rather to choake and strangle the plants of life. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Byth' Clock 'tis Day, And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. ii. 97 As a lampe is choaked with a multitude of oyle,..so is the naturall heat with immoderate eating strangled in the body. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 387 Young Trees will be strangled with..any rank growing Corn or Weeds, if [etc.]. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. ix. 237 The poor King..saw..the fatal cabinet..and dolefully calculated how many yawns he must strangle ere he sustained the consideration of its contents. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 476 The presence of large quantities of this intrusive substance strangling the secreting structures. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 788 [The symptoms] occur..also where the heart is strangled and compressed by dense fibrous thickening. b. figurative with various notions. To prevent the growth or rise of; to hamper or destroy by excessive restrictions; to suppress. Also with off. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development repressa1413 snub1583 smothera1616 stranglea1616 mither1847 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development repressa1413 snub1583 smothera1616 stranglea1616 throttle1825 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding > with restrictions, etc. achoke?a1425 repress?1567 chokea1616 stranglea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 47 Be merry (Gentle) Strangle such thoughts as these, with any thing That you behold the while. View more context for this quotation 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O8^v Consuming anguish, styptick bitternesse, Doth now so strangle their imperious will. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 321 It is not fit to debate whether it shall be in the power of any person or persons to strangle the debates and pains of this House. 1661 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) ii. ii. 145 Too inconsiderable to strangle your interests. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes App.: Reasons for Bill 1 As often as a Bill was brought into Parliament for this purpose, it was always encountred with another..and the latter constantly strangled the former. 1898 G. Meredith Napoleon in Odes French Hist. vi Her surest way to strangle thought. 1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War iii. 72 The exclusive privileges retained by the Dutch had almost strangled the trade of Antwerp. 1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 38 The frost has..ruthlessly strangled off the fantasies Of leaves. 4. intransitive. To be choked or suffocated. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of suffocation or choking strangle1338 smore1488 smoor1508 smotherc1528 to choke up1555 stifle1594 throttle1655 suffocate1702 quackle1806 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 55 I praye God if it wer so I strangle of þis brede. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 8 He could not..lie down in his bed; and if he had assayed to do it, then he should strangle. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxii. 83 He came down..with a surly scowl on his..face, strangling in a tight, cross-barred cravat. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae ix. 228 Some foul and ominous nightmare, from the which I would awake strangling. 1897 Bookman Jan. 116/1 Strangling in our starch we can rally him [Byron] familiarly on his limp collars. Compounds Categories » † strangle-goose n. slang Obsolete a poulterer (Grose Dict. Vulgar T. 1785). † strangle-tare n. [translation of Greek ὀροβάγχη, < ὄροβος tare, vetch + ἄγχειν to choke, strangle] Obsolete Turner's name for the Broomrape (Orobanche); by later writers sometimes applied to some other parasitic plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape choke-weed1548 Orobanche1548 orobe-strangler1562 strangle-tare1562 broomrape1578 choke-wort1620 kill-herb1671 strangle-weed1693 strangle-vetch1796 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 71 It hath the name of Orobanche, that is chokefitche or strangletare. 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Strangle weede, and Strangle tare, that is Orobanch. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Strangle~tare, a tare that strangles, Vicia lathyroides, and also a plant that strangles a tare, Cuscuta Europæa. strangle-vetch n. = strangle-tare n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape choke-weed1548 Orobanche1548 orobe-strangler1562 strangle-tare1562 broomrape1578 choke-wort1620 kill-herb1671 strangle-weed1693 strangle-vetch1796 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 638 Strangle Vetch, or Tare. strangle-weed n. = strangle-tare n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > broomrape choke-weed1548 Orobanche1548 orobe-strangler1562 strangle-tare1562 broomrape1578 choke-wort1620 kill-herb1671 strangle-weed1693 strangle-vetch1796 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. li. 408 Unto whom it is more contrarious and hurtful than the Strangle-weed, Choak-fitch is to the Flax. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 77 The Broomrapes..have in country places the old name of Strangleweed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1386v.a1300
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