Recent Examples on the WebBirdlike calls periodically ring out, but they are confined, desperate, strangulated. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020 There’s a general sense of strangulating grief-doom, dramatized with scenes where crazy stuff happens to someone who suddenly WAKES UP in their bed. Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020 Clarinetist Robert Woolfrey was amusingly strangulated in the passage where the noose is tightened around Till's neck, and first associate concertmaster Peter Otto played his solo passages with style and grace. Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017
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Etymology
Latin strangulatus, past participle of strangulare