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.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa uma pessoa que mata alguém apertando a garganta, ou um tipo de planta trepadeira que cresce ao redor de uma árvore hospedeira e acaba por matá-la.

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.

   🇵🇹Planta estranguladora

   Sinônimos: 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.

   🇵🇹Estrangulador

   Sinônimos: garroterthrottler

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