Synonyms for strangled
stran·gled

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1. smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressedadjective

   held in check with difficulty

   "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"

   Synonyms:
   suppressed, stifled, smothered

   Antonyms:
   uninhibited

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1. List of paraphrases for "strangled":

   choked, asphyxiated, smothered

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How to use strangled in a sentence?

1. Paul Eldridge:

   In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

2. Anne Rice:

   The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

3. Benjamin Crump:

   So you the people can see for yourself how they strangled, literally, the life out of a human being.

4. Ziv Cohen:

   We know that he couldn't contain his behavior, even in a public place like a restaurant, when we shortly thereafter find her strangled to death, it does suggest a kind of intimate type of homicide, domestic abuse, type of homicide between a couple -- and therefore certainly makes Brian Laundrie the main suspect.

5. Birgit Ahamer:

   That the woman was strangled seems... quite certain.