strangle
verb (used with object)
to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
unstrangled
-
a word derived from
strangle.
Example Sentences
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Somewhere in advance a man with a high tenor voice began to sing a wild folk-song, of the sort that is common to all countries whose heritage is hope unstrangled.
From The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy
O, justice, you have fled, to dwell In Mexico, unstrangled, Lest you should hang as high as—well, As Haman dangled.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce
