strangles

strangles

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæŋɡəlz/
• Hyphenation: stran‧gles

Noun

strangles (uncountable)

1. A disease of horses caused by an infection by the bacterium Streptococcus equi.
   • 1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman (page 245)

     The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.

Derived terms

• bastard strangles

Translations

disease of horses

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Catalan: galteres equines f pl Czech: hříběcí Danish: kværke c Dutch: droes (nl) m Estonian: nõlg Finnish: pääntauti French: gourme (fr) f German: Druse (de) f Hungarian: mirigykór Ido: gurmo (io) Ingrian: päätauti Italian: stranguglione m Norwegian: kverke m Polish: zołzy f Portuguese: garrotilho m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: мыт (ru) m (myt) Spanish: gurma f Swedish: kvarka c Turkish: su sakağısı

Further reading

• strangles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• strangles at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Streptococcus equi at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

Verb

strangles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strangle

Noun

strangles

1. plural of strangle

Anagrams

• Stanglers, grantless, slangster