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strangled, ppl. a.|ˈstræŋg(ə)ld|
[f. strangle v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb.
1. lit. † Also absol. (= what is strangled) literal rendering of Acts xv. 20.
1382Wyclif Acts xv. 20 That thei absteyne hem fro..stranglid thingis [Vulg. a suffocatis; Gr. ἀπὸ τοῦ πνικτοῦ; Tindale 1534 from stranglyd]. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 170 Staring full gastly, like a strangled man. 1618J. Sprint Cassander Angl. 17 When the Apostles decreed the abstaining from blood and strangled. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iii. 65 Richemont..down the Loire Sends the black carcass of his strangled foe. 1828Ann. Reg. 375/1 The blood in a strangled or suffocated person rises to the head, and gives the face a livid appearance.
b. Path. = strangulated.
1846F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 423 When the strangled portion [of a hernial tumour], which formed a sort of plug, is returned, the rest follows easily. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 897 The skin of the strangled portion [of the little toe] is not materially altered in appearance.
2. transf. and fig. Suppressed, prevented from growing or developing.
1812Coleridge Remorse v. i. 41 How the half sounds Blend with this strangled light! 1847Tennyson Princess v. 15 A strangled titter, out of which there brake On all sides..Unmeasured mirth. 1854Ld. Lytton in Lady B. Balfour Lett. (1906) I. 58 Each step forward..would have to be trodden over some relinquished dream, or some strangled instinct. 1898Meredith Odes, Napoleon vi, Her strangled thought got breath.
b. Of a voice [after F. voix étranglée]: Choked with emotion, uttered with difficulty. rare.
1900L. B. Walford One of Ourselves xiv, ‘Come home this minute,’ she said, in a cold, strangled voice. |