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UK
/stɹˈæŋɡlɐ/
]
[ US /ˈstɹæŋɡɫɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹæŋɡɫɝ/ ]
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
- someone who kills by strangling
How To Use strangler In A Sentence
- He seemed unusually gentle for a strangler - soft-spoken and quite contrite.
- Blowing up those bridges then, considering the film as a purely autotelic artwork, it is quite possible, I'd argue, to read the work as dealing wholly with symbols and the relationships between them: a deserted Metro station; a flick-knife; a murder; a deserted tower-block; a wife; a police commissioner; a strangler; and so on. Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
- He held the telephone receiver with a strangler's grip.
- Shady conditions at ground level favor woody climbers that include strangler figs (Ficus spp.) and the cablelike Gnetum, an unusual climbing gymnosperm. Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
- 'Because--" Sheiling hesitated, as if choosing his answer from several alternatives--'Stan's not a strangler. STAGE FRIGHT
- It’s raining here this morning, just a light rain instead of the toad strangler we had two days ago, and mercifully no lightning — our dachshund is a huge baby during storms. Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread
- Many stranglers on the sides fell to carefully placed shafts.
- Its dramatic Skywalk reaches above the canopy of palms, strangler figs and thick woody vines to command a breathtaking 40-mile view to the ocean.
- Experience subtle changes in vegetation as we descend into the rainforest of bangalow palms, strangler figs and red cedar.
- Among the invasive species found here and there are Brazilian peppertree, guava, laurel fig, melaleuca, Old World climbing fern, and strangler fig.