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8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
verb conceal or hide
verb die from strangulation
originFrom Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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