Forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expelling air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorous than coughing.
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
To stifle or suppress.
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.