To destroy or abolish something.
To obscure or eclipse something.
To hunt down (a species) to extinction.
To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
To die out.
To kill.
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.