adjective
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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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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He made a strangled groan and swayed.
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Her mouth opened to scream for help, but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth.
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I tried to shout like the two of them, but my cry came out strangled and distorted.
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Tiny strangled sobs floated out of it and across the room.
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With a strangled , gargling shriek, Carradine fell over, frothing at the mouth, arms waving.
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Yeb's big hand closes around mine, and we wait in strangled silence to be delivered.