Strangle vs Stranger - What's the difference?
strangle | stranger |
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
To stifle or suppress an action.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
* Shakespeare
(strange)
* Truth is stranger than fiction. (English proverb)
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
An outsider or foreigner.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I am a most poor woman and a stranger , / Born out of your dominions.
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*:Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
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A newcomer.
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, title= (lb) One who has not been seen for a long time.
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(lb) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger .
(lb) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
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As verbs the difference between strangle and stranger
is that strangle is to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle while stranger is (obsolete|transitive) to estrange; to alienate.As an adjective stranger is
(strange).As a noun stranger is
a person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.strangle
English
Verb
(strangl)- He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
- She strangled a scream.
- The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
See also
* asphyxiate * choke * querk * suffocate * throttleExternal links
* * *stranger
English
Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* See strangeNoun
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