stranguler
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;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."