[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strangle \stran"gle\, v. t. imp.  p. p. strangled; p. pr. 
   vb. n. strangling. of. estrangler, f. 'etrangler, l.
   strangulare, gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to e.
   string, n. cf. strain, string.
   1. to compress the windpipe of a person or animal until
      death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to
      death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a
      rope.
      1913 webster

            our saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to
            strangle herself.                     --ayliffe.
      1913 webster

   2. to stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
      1913 webster

            shall i not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
            and there die strangled ere my romeo comes? --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
      "strangle such thoughts." --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
strangled strangling strain string 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strangled
     adj : held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a
           stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed
           laughter" syn: smothered, stifled, suppressed
see also:
smothered stifled suppressed 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "strangled":
   blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, clamped, coarse,
   compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted,
   contracted, cracked, cramped, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly,
   dry, dysphonic, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking,
   hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, knitted, lisping,
   metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, nipped, pinched, pinched-in,
   puckered, pursed, quavering, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy,
   rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, solidified, squawking, squawky,
   squeezed, stertorous, stifled, strangulated, thick, throaty, tinny,
   tremulous, twangy, velar, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

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