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strangleable

strangleable adjective: capable or deserving of being strangled.

Adjective

strangleable (comparative more strangleable, superlative most strangleable)

  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 SovereignOctober 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774

Forms of strangleable

comparativemore strangleable
superlativemost strangleable

Origin of strangleable

From strangle + -able.

Questions about strangleable

What does strangleable mean?
Strangleable means capable or deserving of being strangled.
What part of speech is strangleable?
Strangleable is an adjective.

Words near strangleable in the dictionary

  1. Strangios
  2. Strangite
  3. Strangites
  4. strangle
  5. strangle the parrot
  6. strangleable
  7. strangled
  8. strangled the parrot
  9. strangledly
  10. strangleheld
  11. stranglehold

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