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Definition of Strangled
1. Adjective. Held in check with difficulty. "Suppressed laughter"
Definition of Strangled
1. Verb. (past of strangle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strangled
1. strangle [v] - See also: strangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strangled
Literary usage of Strangled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"Wives strangled or buried alive at their husbands' funerals. young man said that
this was the funeral, and pointed out his mother, who was walking along ..."
2. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"The Impulse to Strangle the Object of Sexual Desire—The Wish to be Strangled—Respiratory
Disturbance the Essential Element in this Group of Phenomena—The ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1891)
"She has been strangled ! Her neck ! her neck ! See 1 HJALMAR. Yes. Yes. ...
Strangled ! strangled ! strangled ! (He is heard running down the corridor and ..."
4. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"At this mund, because she strangled the calf, to this day, when a calf sucks,
they must not say, The calf is still sucking (after milk has been started)'—so ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"tinian was found strangled in his apartment, and some pains were employed to
disguise the manifest guilt of ..."
6. Publications (1853)
"He was sentenced to death, and his sentence was read to him; though it was early
in the morning, he was brought forth into the market-place and strangled at ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Sit down," said Miss Hale ; and she obeyed, only in a very low voice ejaculating
a strangled "Hurrah!" Annie was struggling between laughter and tears ..."
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