1. people who kill by squeezing the throat to prevent breathing
2. plants that grow around other plants and eventually kill them by cutting off light or nutrients
Usage: botanical

Examples

• The detective was investigating a case involving multiple stranglers in the city.
• Serial stranglers often leave distinctive marks on their victims.
• The jungle was full of strangler vines that wrapped around the trees.
• Strangler figs begin as small plants but eventually engulf their host trees.
• The botanist studied how stranglers compete with native vegetation.
• These strangler plants can take decades to completely kill their hosts.