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# strangler

«strangler» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who kills or hurts someone by squeezing their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a strangler, stranglers); related: strangle, strangulation

### meaning for a pupil

1) A strangler is a person who kills or hurts someone by squeezing their throat so they cannot breathe; it is a word from crime news and stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#m1)

2) (science) A strangler fig is a tropical plant that grows around a tree, wraps it in roots and can slowly kill it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#m2)

3) Weeds that wrap around and choke other plants are sometimes called stranglers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons on rainforests, the strangler fig starts as a seed high in a tree, sends roots down to the ground and slowly surrounds its host. In crime news and detective stories, "the strangler" is a nickname for a violent criminal; that tells the reader the story is about serious crime. Safety: never put anything around anyone's neck, even in play.

### examples

- The strangler fig wrapped its roots around the old tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x1)
- In the rainforest, strangler figs can grow taller than their host trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x2)
- The detective story was about the hunt for a strangler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x3)
- Bindweed is a strangler that chokes garden plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x4)
- The police finally caught the strangler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x5)
- A strangler fig can leave a hollow tower of roots after the host tree dies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x6)
- Gardeners pull out stranglers like ivy and bindweed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/#x7)

### note

Countable: stranglers. Verb: strangle. Do not mix up "strangler" with "stranger" (a person you do not know). Safety: games that squeeze the neck are very dangerous.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «strangler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strangler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.