strangles

1. 1.

   an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes

   Synonymsequine distemper

   Broaderdistemper

Other forms of strangles

plural

strangleses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about strangles

What does strangles mean?

strangles means "an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes".

How many syllables are in strangles?

strangles has 1 syllable: strangles.

What is another word for strangles?

Close synonyms include equine distemper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strangles a common word?

strangles is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.