Unstrangle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unstrangle is a verb meaning To undo a constriction of the air passages, or restore to life after death by strangulation.
Meaning
To undo a constriction of the air passages, or restore to life after death by strangulation.
More Meanings
- To release from something that squeezes tightly around.
- To free from the stranglehold of excessive constraints.
- To free up (something) that has become choked up; unblock.
- To relax from constricting tension.
Example Sentences
This has been one way in which the surrealists have tried to unstrangle the iron grip of convention.
No more strangleholds! No more strangleholds! Ungag our souls!! Unstrangle our souls!! Unsmother our souls!!
Those who are afraid to unstrangle the judge, and allow him to comment on the facts, contribute more than all others to the inefficiency of the jury today.
After you are seated and help your wife unstrangle herself out of her cloak and pick up her opera glass bag seven or eight times, and say, "O, my God, can't you hang on to anything?"
Word Forms
- unstrangles
- unstrangling
- unstrangled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include strangle, unchoke, unsuffocate, choke, unsnarl, unsmother.
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