What's the difference between strangled and strangler?
Strangled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Strangle
Example Sentences:
(1) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
(2) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(3) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
(4) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
(5) We just want to do that in a low-carbon way, we’ve always said that.” Opposing all new runway construction risks binding the hands of the Liberal Democrats and strangling growth in the regions, activists were told during the debate.
(6) Three were shot, two were strangled, one was stabbed and one was killed through 15 blunt-force trauma injuries.
(7) Across the Pacific, the subtle, unremitting first impacts of the climate crisis are already strangling lives.
(8) They are strangling democracy; using their enormous wealth and power of influence to disseminate confusion about climate change, and prevent our leaders from taking action.
(9) The Abbott government has done another deal on the side to strangle the wind industry with unfair regulations, which don’t apply to industries with genuine health impacts, like coal and gas,” said the Greens deputy leader, Larissa Waters.
(10) Quite what Mourinho screamed into the pitchside microphone at the final whistle is unclear – the Portuguese claimed that he was singing – but there is no escaping the fact that Chelsea made hard work of what could have been a routine win and that there is a vulnerability about them defensively that is hard to reconcile with the team that strangled the life out of opponents last season.
(11) It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.
(12) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(13) We suggest that XPRP potentiates the damage of the secretory epithelium made by CCR, by strangling the posterior (long ciliary) blood supply of the ciliary body.
(14) The paper also projects the mentality of perpetrators who, after strangling their victims, tried to hide the crime by disposing of the dead bodies by burning, burying, hanging, throwing them into water, or concealing them in distant places in most of the cases.
(15) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(16) '; I don't understand who invented that thing, 'R-Patz', I want to strangle them.
(17) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
(18) It found they were more confident than last year, but also rather worried about regulation strangling their firms, and the danger posed by high government debt levels.
(19) One account from Mabhouh's brother suggested he had been strangled and electrocuted.
(20) Pickles said: "If you want to rebuild a fragile national economy, you don't strangle business with red tape and let bloated regional quangos make all the decisions."
Strangler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, strangles.
Example Sentences:
(1) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
(2) For your local taxpayer-subsidised theatre, low-tech high-return junk such as standup comedy, discredited TV psychics and Abba tribute acts float more worthwhile artists with identifiable skills – dancers, actors, puppeteers and ex-members of the Stranglers doing acoustic tours.
(3) There's a bigger connection, though: to The Dead Zone , in which Sheriff George Bannerman asks for John Smith's help to catch the Castle Rock Strangler, Frank Dodd.
(4) Lying on his sunlounger in Sousse, staring out over the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Hammamet and with The Stranglers playing through his earphones, Colin Bidwell thought life was good.
(5) Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
(6) 1.02pm: Trinity Mirror's QC, Desmond Browne, stands to deny allegations made yesterday that the Sunday Mirror had a surveillance team take a suspect in the "Suffolk Strangler" murder hunt to a hotel in Ipswich for an interview in 2006.
(7) Since Jack Valenti, the legendary film industry lobbyist, said in 1982 that the VCR was like the Boston Strangler, preparing to murder the innocents of Hollywood, they have viewed such advances as a Godzilla creature rising from the sea to threaten their existence.
(8) 12.31pm: Penrose says he nearly "laughed out loud" when he heard allegations made at the inquiry yesterday that the Sunday Mirror had a surveillance operation in Ipswich during the hunt for the "Suffolk Strangler" in 2006.
(9) At that point I'd only seen about three gigs, including the Stranglers.
(10) • The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter is published by Fig Tree on Thursday.