Strangles Definition

strănggəlz
noun
An infectious disease of horses and related animals, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi and characterized by inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane and abscesses under the jaw and around the throat that cause a strangling or choking sensation.
American Heritage Medicine
A disease of young horses caused by a bacterial infection (Streptococcus equi) and characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and by the formation of abscesses in the adjacent lymph nodes.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • equine distemper
verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strangle.

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Origin of Strangles

  • From Middle English strangle strangulation from stranglen to strangle strangle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Strangles Sentence Examples

  • She is a kind of female satyr, who resides in caves and strangles and perverts men.

  • But in Tobit we find Asmodaeus the evil demon, TO 7rovrlpov Sac,uoviov, who strangles Sarah's husbands, and also a general reference to " a devil or evil spirit," 77/€144,a.

  • An unusual form of strangles is recognized which produces flu-like symptoms and often becomes persistent in a yard.

  • We must, then, admit that Pericles sincerely contemplated the good of his fellow-countrymen, and we may believe that he endeavoured to realize that ideal Athens which Thucydides sketches in the Funeral Speech - an Athens where free and intelligent obedience is rendered to an equitable code of laws, where merit finds its way to the front, where military efficiency is found along with a free development in other directions and strangles neither commerce nor art.

  • The key is to find a form-fitting shape that skims, not strangles, the body.

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