strangledly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From strangled +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

strangledly (comparative more strangledly, superlative most strangledly)

  1. While or as if being strangled.
    • 1945, Cornell Woolrich, “The Fountain Pen”, in Frank Owen, editor, Fireside Mystery Book, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Press, Inc., published 1947, page 294:
      Hammond was coughing strangledly, and wiping a bloody fleck from his cheek, where one of the fragments of the pen barrel had nicked him.
    • 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 608:
      He broke off strangledly and got down on his knees, holding his left arm gingerly with his right, and vomited.
    • 1959, Alan Hunter, Gently in the Sun (the Inspector George Gently series), London: Robinson, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103:
      His words came strangledly, incoherent with violent passion.