To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
To stifle or suppress.
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
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.