Strangled

Synonyms for "strangled" (91 found)

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Closest matches (19)

blurred brassy brazen breathy choked choking clamped coarse compact compressed concentrated condensed consolidated constricted contracted cracked cramped

Verb(2 words)

choke choked

Strong matches (27)

croaking croaky drawling drawly dry dysphonic gruff guttural harsh harsh-sounding hawking hoarse husky inarticulate indistinct knitted lisping metallic mispronounced muzzy

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nasal

Verb(6 words)

garotted garrote garroted garrotted hampered muffled

Related words (45)

nipped pinched pinched-in puckered pursed quavering ragged raucid raucous rough roupy rude shaking shaky snuffling solidified squawking squawky squeezed stertorous

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stifled strangulated thick throaty tinny tremulous twangy velarwasp waistedwasp-waisted wrinkled

Verb(11 words)

restrained restrict smother stifle stifled strained stunted suffocated suppress throttle throttled

Adjective(3 words)

smothered stifled suppressed

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

growth hinder injury killtone quality

More specific

12 entries

bureaucratic strangulationeconomic strangulationgarrotinghampered developmentligature strangulationmanual strangulationmuffled speechslowed progressionstifled crystrained voicestunted growththrottling

Collocations

9 entries

strangled by debtstrangled by povertystrangled by regulationsstrangled crystrangled economystrangled growthstrangled melodystrangled sentencestrangled voice

Inflections

4 entries

more strangledmost strangledstrangles strangling

Derivations

5 entries

strangle stranglement strangler strangulation strangulatory

similar

1 entries

inhibited

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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The postmortem showed that she had been strangled.

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She was lying on the floor, strangled by a harp string.

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The stranger strangled the stranded stripper.

Source: tatoeba (554935)

Tom was strangled.

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