STRANGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strangled mean? 

• STRANGLED (adjective)
  The adjective STRANGLED has 1 sense:

1. held in check with difficulty

  Familiarity information: STRANGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRANGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held in check with difficulty

Synonyms:

smothered; stifled; strangled; suppressed

Context example:

suppressed laughter

Similar:

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

 Context examples 

He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To all appearances he looked like a dog that had been strangled to death.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And then I strangled a new-born agony—a deformed thing which I could not persuade myself to own and rear—and ran on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he strangled, quite involuntarily his arms and legs clawed the water and drove him up to the surface and into the clear sight of the stars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And as I choked and strangled, and as the Ghost wallowed for an instant, broadside on and rolling straight over and far into the wind, I beheld a huge sea rise far above my head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I climbed the thin wall with frantic perilous haste, eager to catch one glimpse of you from the top: the stones rolled from under my feet, the ivy branches I grasped gave way, the child clung round my neck in terror, and almost strangled me; at last I gained the summit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And the Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who afterward strangled his wife.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)