| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | stran·gles |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  str ng g lz |
| PLURAL NOUN: | (used with a sing. verb) 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Middle English strangle, strangulation, from stranglen, to strangle. See strangle.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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