strangleable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

strangle +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

strangleable (comparative more strangleable, superlative most strangleable)

  1. Capable or deserving of being strangled.
    • October 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
      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

References[edit]

strangleable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.