verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strangled/stifled cry (= that stops before it is finished )
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The girl gave a stifled cry of disappointment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death .
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Doctor Horatio Holliday has been found strangled to death in his home, slumped over his dining room table.
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We will be slowly strangled to death .
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The other strangled himself to death out of shame.
■ VERB
try
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He said his father had tried to strangle him thirty or forty times or more.
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Mahmud was trying to strangle Sheikh.
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It also claims that McLean tried to strangle her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strangled cry/gasp/voice etc
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After a few thrusting minutes Edward gave a strangled cry that seemed to come from deep in his throat and jerked out of her.
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But Gary in his slow strangled voice spoke a kind of poetry as he told me about his previous life.
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Gilbert uttered a strangled cry and leapt to his feet with shadow reflections of crawling rain on his spectrally white face.
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He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions.
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Lorrimer gave a strangled cry and lunged out.
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Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Freitas was strangled with a nylon cord.
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He slid his hands around her neck and tried to strangle her.
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Police said that the victim had been strangled.
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The economy is being strangled by inefficiency and corruption.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then I strangled all their grannies.
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Doctor Horatio Holliday has been found strangled to death in his home, slumped over his dining room table.
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Hercules lifted him up and holding him in the air strangled him.
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Piotr Jaroszewicz, 83, had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured.
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The place was strangling her like a shrieking accusing prophet.
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They say he strangled an entire pack of Wolf Cubs and fed their bodies to a school of carp?