strangleable

English

Etymology

strangle +‎ -able

Adjective

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

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