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

1. noun. The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
2. noun. The throttle valve.
3. transitive verb. To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.
4. transitive verb. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
5. transitive verb. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.
6. intransitive verb. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
7. intransitive verb. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
8. noun. a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine

   Synonyms: accelerator

9. noun. a pedal that controls the throttle valve

   "he stepped on the gas"

   Synonyms: accelerator, gas, gun

10. verb. reduce the air supply

    "choke a carburetor"

    Synonyms: choke

11. verb. place limits on (extent or access)

    "restrict the use of this parking lot"

    "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

    Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, trammel

12. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: strangle, strangulate

Synonyms

accelerator, gas, gun, choke, bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, trammel, strangle, strangulate

Common word forms

throttled, throttler, throttles, throttling, throttleable

Words from these letters

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