strangler

A noun referring to a person who kills someone by squeezing their throat, or a type of epiphytic vine that grows around a host tree and eventually kills it.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv, das eine Person bezeichnet, die jemanden durch Zudrücken der Kehle tötet, oder eine epiphytische Kletterpflanze, die einen Wirtsbaum umwächst und ihn schließlich abtötet.

1. Strangling plant C1 formal

   An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it, eventually strangling the host tree.

   • The strangler fig slowly enveloped the palm tree.
   • In the rainforest, stranglers often kill their host trees.
   • The roots of the strangler vine tightened around the trunk.

   🇩🇪Würgefeige

   Synonyme: strangler fig

2. Killer by strangulation B2 formal

   A person who kills another person by squeezing their throat, preventing breathing.

   • The police arrested the notorious strangler.
   • The victim was attacked by a strangler in the alley.
   • Detectives are hunting for a serial strangler in the city.

   🇩🇪Würger

   Synonyme: garroterthrottler

• stranglers plural form
• stranglers' possessive plural form
• strangler's possessive singular form