Crossword-Solution: STRANGLER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strangler | n. | One who, or that which, strangles. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “STRANGLER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "___" Lewis of wrestling fame. | 1 answer |
| Infamous Boston fiend | 1 answer |
| Nickname of wrestler Lewis. | 1 answer |
| Tree or fig | 1 answer |
| person or thing that strangles | 1 answer |
| Horror movie sort | 2 answers |
| murderer | 20 answers |
| Boston. | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMEECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STRANGLER (5)
Then he made this song:-- (82) “When my manhood was matched in embraces With the might of yon horror, the strangler, Far other I found it than folding That fair one ye know in my arms! On the high-seat of heroes with Odin From the horn of the gods I were drinking O'er soon--let me speak it to warriors-- If Skrymir had failed of his aid.” Then his wounds were looked to; they found that his ribs were broken on both sides.
Each strangler is provided with a noose, to despatch the unfortunate victim, as the Thugs make it a point never to cause death by any other means.
There are several gradations through which every member of the fraternity must regularly pass before he arrives at the high office of a Bhurtote, or strangler.
When a man who is not of Thug lineage, or who has not been brought up from his infancy among them, wishes to become a strangler, he solicits the oldest, and most pious and experienced Thug, to take him under his protection and make him his disciple; and under his guidance he is regularly initiated.
When he has acquired sufficient experience in the lower ranks of the profession, he applies to his Gooroo, or preceptor, to give the finishing grace to his education, and make a strangler of him.
Quotes with STRANGLER (3)
A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.
O sun, heart of the heavens whose blood of light Infuses the vigor which transmutes to azure The black ice strangler of great space obscure I hate you, mask of gold, mist and fire, circular Blind monster blinding all the prey around You who veil the impure dazzling phantasm To the loving vertigo of my avid gazes The visions of the colorless abyss of the void Reversed hollow truth-mask of the other world.
Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings on memory distortion were clearly commodifiable. In the 1970s and 1980s she provided assistance to defense attorneys eager to prove to juries that eyewitness accounts are not the same as camcorders. "I've helped a lot of people," she says. Some of those people: the Hillside Strangler, the Menendez brothers, Oliver North, Ted Bundy. "Ted Bundy?" I ask, when she tells this to …
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–2011).