strangles

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Noun
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stran=gles

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun strangles has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

stranglesn. 
     A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

strangles, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) an infectious streptococcal fever, esp. affecting the respiratory tract, in a horse, ass, etc.

Etymology
pl. of strangle (n.) f. STRANGLE

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