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strangleable en · ADJ

Etymology

From strangle + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable or deserving of being strangled.
   • I am glad that the capital strangler should , in his turn , be strangleable , and now and then strangled ; for I know of no brute so fierce , nor criminal so guilty , as the creature called a Sovereign October 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774

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