strangulant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →strangulo, strangulare, strangulavi, strangulatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strangle/throttle; suffocate/stifle/smother; choke; constrict way; keep close;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Aegyptii vocant, in hoc nos amplectuntur, ut strangulent. Vale. LII. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM Quid est hoc, Lucili..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...angusto inclusae cupiditates sine exitu se ipsae strangulant; inde maeror marcorque et mille fluctus mentis incertae, quam spes..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...purgatae alium quassae sonum reddunt, item fauces tumentes strangulant vocem, optusae obscurant, rasae exasperant, convulsae fractis sunt organis..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quod sensus obumbrant et velut laeto gramine sata strangulant. XXIV. Nam et quod recte dici potest circumimus amore..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...iudices, innumerabiles me indignandi causae initio statim actionis strangulent, quia nec dicere universas semel possum nec gregatim erumpentes..."