ppl. a. [f. STRANGLE v. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.
1. lit. † Also absol. (= what is strangled) literal rendering of Acts xv. 20.
1382. Wyclif, Acts xv. 20. That thei absteyne hem fro … stranglid thingis [Vulg. a suffocatis; Gr. ἁπὸ τοῦ πνικτοῦ; Tindale 1534 from stranglyd].
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. ii. 170. Staring full gastly, like a strangled man.
1618. J. Sprint, Cassander Angl., 17. When the Apostles decreed the abstaining from blood and strangled.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, III. 65. Richemont … down the Loire Sends the black carcass of his strangled foe.
1828. Ann. Reg., 375/1. The blood in a strangled or suffocated person rises to the head, and gives the face a livid appearance.
b. Path. = STRANGULATED.
1846. Brittan, trans. Malgaigne’s Man. Oper. Surg., 423. When the strangled portion [of a hernial tumour], which formed a sort of plug, is returned, the rest follows easily.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 897. The skin of the strangled portion [of the little toe] is not materially altered in appearance.
2. transf. and fig. Suppressed, prevented from growing or developing.
1812. Coleridge, Remorse, V. i. 41. How the half sounds Blend with this strangled light!
1847. Tennyson, Princess, V. 15. A strangled titter, out of which there brake On all sides … Unmeasured mirth.
1854. Ld. Lytton, in Lady B. Balfour, Lett. (1906), I. 58. Each step forward … would have to be trodden over some relinquished dream, or some strangled instinct.
1898. Meredith, Odes, Napoleon, vi. Her strangled thought got breath.
b. Of a voice [after F. voix étranglée]: Choked with emotion, uttered with difficulty. rare.
1900. Lucy B. Walford, One of Ourselves, xiv. ‘Come home this minute,’ she said, in a cold, strangled voice.
