Strangled

strangled
    adj 1: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a
           stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed
           laughter" [syn: {smothered}, {stifled}, {strangled},
           {suppressed}]
    

Strangle \Stran"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strangled}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Strangling}.] [OF. estrangler, F. ['e]trangler, L.
   strangulare, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? a halter; and perhaps akin to E.
   string, n. Cf. {Strain}, {String}.]
   1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until
      death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to
      death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a
      rope.
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            Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to
            strangle herself.                     --Ayliffe.
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   2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
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            Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
            And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? --Shak.
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   3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
      "Strangle such thoughts." --Shak.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "strangled":
      blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, clamped, coarse,
      compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted,
      contracted, cracked, cramped, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly,
      dry, dysphonic, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking,
      hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, knitted, lisping,
      metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, nipped, pinched, pinched-in,
      puckered, pursed, quavering, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy,
      rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, solidified, squawking, squawky,
      squeezed, stertorous, stifled, strangulated, thick, throaty, tinny,
      tremulous, twangy, velar, wasp-waisted, wrinkled