[f. STRANGLE v. + -ING2.] That strangles, in senses of the vb.
1606. Bryskett, Civ. Life, 108. Their praises and soothings are but strangling morsels smeared ouer with hony.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Tobacco Battered, 143. In them Both, a strangling vertue note, And both of them doe worke upon the Throte.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts (1684), 88. Cockle, wild strangling Fitches, Bindweed.
1692. South, Serm. (1697), I. 16. Weeping … is the Discharge of a big and a swelling grief, of a full and a strangling discontent.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 631. The suffocative convulsion … must produce that strangling constriction or straitness which is a pathognomic sign of asthma.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, 1789. Tree by tree, with strangling roots.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 45. The tight strangling grip of the inelastic fibrous sac.
