Locked
Strangled
Strangled adjective - Held in check with difficulty.
Locked and strangled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Locked" instead a verb "Strangled".
Nearby Word: strangling
Both words in one sentence
- Wes and David continue to look for Blaine after being told to go home by police, Finn gets locked in a car trunk, and Kurt gets briefly strangled by Blaine's stalker.
Source: Adult Fear / Fan Works - An unfortunately apocryphal story asserts that he acquired this name when he strangled a tiger while locked in a cage with it in a Russian (or sometimes Chinese) POW camp, which just goes to shows how much awe people held for him.
Source: Red Baron / Real Life
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