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Meanings of strangler in inglês
An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree.
Synonyms
Examples for "choke"
Examples for "choke"
1
Castaner announced new measures such as banning police use of the choke-hold.
2
That's so long as the federal government continues to choke our economy.
3
It was a long moment before I could choke out the words.
4
The current strategy for ending the rupee's free fall will choke growth.
5
Poultices do sometimes choke swine; tulips reduce posterity; causes leather to resist.
1
Back in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America's eponymous choker has good news for me.
2
William had given her the pearl choker for their third wedding anniversary.
3
She glanced at Nelson and found him wearing a choker of light.
4
In her jewelry box back in Baltimore was a four-strand pearl choker.
5
She stood by the bed, reached back and slowly unfastened the choker.
1
It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter.
2
The methods of the garroter were quick, sure and silent.
3
Look about you, or you will feel the garroter's hug.
4
One hand of the garroter was on his throat, the other was busily rifling his pockets.
5
Even now, in the case of this bloody-handed butcher, this ruthless garroter....
1
The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.
2
But the public garrotter, he is a bad thing too.
3
Many a man had they seen with his throat in the hands of the public garrotter; and all had begun with denials who ended thus.
4
Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters.
5
After dinner at the Birds' one evening we fell to talking of garrotters.
1
The name means 'throttler' in Greek.
2
The Hamiltonian guitar throttlers release their first album - sharp and brittle as an oyster shell, yet filled with pearls that stroke the ear.
Usage of strangler in inglês
1
Two countries have placed a strangler fig on their coats of arms.
2
Now for the first time in his narrative did the strangler betray emotion.
3
Then his voice stopped as if a strangler's thumb had blocked the windpipe.
4
They took a fancy to the strangler figs and brought back a sapling.
5
Graham Guthrie, very pale, stood looking down at the dead strangler.
6
And, above all, he tracked down El Pelón Sobera and the Tacubaya strangler.
7
And my sisters of the strangler fig tree turned bad men into rabbits.
8
Foundem in 2011 published a narrative saying Google had become a strangler of start-ups.
9
She tiptoed to the front door and peered out, but the strangler was gone.
10
What power could Oudinot, the strangler of a Republic, possess to save a Republic?
11
Since this strangler business, no man can predict what the lawless element may do!
12
It was rather as if a strangler's cord had been cut from his throat.
13
The big man was wearing a black suit, black sunglasses, and black strangler gloves.
14
He saw many strangler figs growing along the island's coast, a kind called Ficus citrifolia.
15
In the Citadel, it was simply called the strangler.
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One of the trunks from the strangler fig suddenly shifted, moved to block Skylan's way.
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