estrangle

English

Etymology

From Middle English estranglen, rare and late variant of stranglen, from Old French estrangler.

Verb

estrangle (third-person singular simple present estrangles, present participle estrangling, simple past and past participle estrangled)

1. (obsolete) To strangle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “estrangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• enlargest, green salt, salt-green