strangles

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes
verb kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
verb conceal or hide

Crumbs fit such little mouths, Cherries suit robins; The eagle's golden breakfast Strangles them. — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete, Emily Dickinson
The sanguinary ant strangled the poor silly fly, as some sharper strangles or ruins his poor dupe. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
In ordinary ones it goes direct to its object, overpowers with violence, and strangles and exhausts often at a single feast. — Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

equine distemper

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