'Strangled' definitions:
Definition of 'strangled'
From: WordNet
adjective
Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed]
Definition of 'Strangled'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. [1913 Webster]
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strangled'
From: 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