Strangleable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable or deserving of being strangled.

    "I am glad that the capital strangler should , in his turn , be strangleable , and now and then strangled ; for I know of no brute so fierce , nor criminal so guilty , as the creature called a Sovereign"

Example

More examples

"I am glad that the capital strangler should , in his turn , be strangleable , and now and then strangled ; for I know of no brute so fierce , nor criminal so guilty , as the creature called a Sovereign"

Etymology

From strangle + -able.

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