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Strait-Jacket
- - A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
Straitjackets
- noun - a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
Strange Quark
- noun - a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
Strangenesses
- noun - (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
- the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner"
- unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Strangle Hold
- - a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
Strangleholds
- noun - a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
- complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"
Strangler Fig
- noun - a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
- a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
Strangulating
- verb - become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate"
- constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
Strangulation
- noun - (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
Stratagemical
- - Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.