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Strangled definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRANGLED, pp. Choked; suffocated; suppressed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strangle Stran"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling.] [OF. estrangler, F. ['e]trangler, L. strangulare, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string, n. Cf. Strain, String.] 1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. --Ayliffe. 2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak. 3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. ``Strangle such thoughts.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight. (LITERARY) In a strangled voice he said, 'This place is going to be unthinkable without you.' ADJ: ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

stran'-g'-ld (chanaq; pniktos, from verb pnigo, "to choke," "to smother," "to strangle" (compare choking of swine in the lake, Mr 5:13; the seed are choked by the thorns, Mt 13:7; the servant takes his fellow-servant by the throat, the King James Version Mt 18:28)): As adjective "strangled," used of animals deprived of life by choking, and so without the shedding of the blood. Flesh thus killed was forbidden as food among the Hebrews, because it contained the blood (Le 17:12). Even Jewish Christians in the Jerusalem council thought it best to forbid things strangled to be eaten by Gentile converts, so as not to give offense to Jewish sentiment, and doubtless also to prevent participation in heathen sacrificial feasts (Ac 15:20; 21:25).

Edward Bagby Pollard

Moby Thesaurus

blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, clamped, coarse, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cracked, cramped, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, knitted, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, quavering, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, solidified, squawking, squawky, squeezed, stertorous, stifled, strangulated, thick, throaty, tinny, tremulous, twangy, velar, wasp-waisted, wrinkled