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.
To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
To free or make available.
To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
The removal of a block or blockage.