Strangled Synonyms and Antonyms

Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. choked
  2. throttled
  3. asphyxiated
  4. killed
  5. suffocated
  6. smothered
  7. gagged
Antonyms:
  1. freed
  2. loosed
Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. throttled
Held in check with difficulty
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. smothered
  2. stifled
  3. suppressed

Strangled Sentence Examples

  • He was not strangled or stabbed or anything of the kind.

  • The enthusiasm with which they were received fed the suspicion, which their uncle instilled into their father's mind, and they were strangled at Sebaste.

  • Said to be the spirit of the daughter of an early Norman lord, who raped her and then strangled her to death.

  • The Harlungs, Imbrecke and Fritile,' are his nephews, whom he has strangled for the sake of their treasure, the Brisingo meni.

  • In 730 Germanus the patriarch resigned rather than subscribe to a decree condemning images; later he was strangled in exile and replaced by an iconoclast, Anastasius.

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