Dictionary Entry
throttle
throttle is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
- 2noun
The throttle valve.
- 3transitive verb
To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.
- 4transitive verb
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- 5transitive verb
To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.
- 6intransitive verb
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- 7intransitive verb
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- 8noun
a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
Synonyms
- 9noun
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
"he stepped on the gas"
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- 10verb
reduce the air supply
"choke a carburetor"
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- 11verb
place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- 12verb
kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
"he tried to strangle his opponent"
"A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
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