strangledly

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adverb

While or as if being strangled.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverbstrangledly (comparative more strangledly, superlative most strangledly)

comparative more strangledly · superlative most strangledly

  1. While or as if being strangled.

    His words came strangledly, incoherent with violent passion.

    1959, Alan Hunter, Gently in the Sun (the Inspector George Gently series), London: Robinson, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103
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    Hammond was coughing strangledly, and wiping a bloody fleck from his cheek, where one of the fragments of the pen barrel had nicked him.

    1945, Cornell Woolrich, “The Fountain Pen”, in Frank Owen, editor, Fireside Mystery Book, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Press, Inc., published 1947, page 294

    He broke off strangledly and got down on his knees, holding his left arm gingerly with his right, and vomited.

    1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 608

Origin

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Chicago

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