strangled

Meaning

of Strangle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suffocate throttle stifled choking suffocation muffled halter strangulation smother suppressed strangling killed smothered suffocated strangulated

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Examples

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. Robert F. Kennedy

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. Scott Westerfeld

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. Georges Rouault

Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled. Latin Proverb

Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

strangle tare strangle the parrot strangleable stranglehold stranglement strangler