strangle

fe’l verb

1. To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle. He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
2. To stifle or suppress. She strangled a scream.
3. To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled. The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
4. To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

ot noun

1. A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.