an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
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someone who kills by strangling
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Strangler \Stran"gler\, n. One who, or that which, strangles. ``The very strangler of their amity.'' --Shak.
Arra chion died by strangling, but not before the strangler gave in from the pain in his toe.' Arrachion was the winner - but dead. The idea that ancient athletes did not have financial motives is also questionable.
Police are hunting the strangler of three teenagers whose bodies were found in fires in Sunderland.
Confessed to being the strangler, but police lacked the evidence to bring him to trial for the killings. Instead, he was tried on a series of unrelated assaults, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.