as in to choke
to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe
I was so angry at what he was saying that I could have throttled him!
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Recent Examples of throttle
Argentine bonds were among the best performers in emerging markets last year but had been throttled by volatility amid the Buenos Aires results and US support package.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
What to Know Trump said Sunday that his administration would import beef from Argentina to help tackle persistently high prices as the supply is throttled by drought, a flesh-eating pest and other issues affecting cattle.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
That extreme heat forces systems to throttle the performance of CPUs and GPUs to avoid degrading the chips.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Lockdowns throttled economic activity and squeezed tax revenue, while public spending surged as governments tried to protect the most vulnerable.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
What to Know Trump said Sunday that his administration would import beef from Argentina to help tackle persistently high prices as the supply is throttled by drought, a flesh-eating pest and other issues affecting cattle.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
That extreme heat forces systems to throttle the performance of CPUs and GPUs to avoid degrading the chips.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Lockdowns throttled economic activity and squeezed tax revenue, while public spending surged as governments tried to protect the most vulnerable.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throttle
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During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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China, in turn, imposed new strangling restrictions on the export of seven rare earth minerals.—
Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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The victim that day was 55-year-old Anna Elza Slesers, who was found strangled to death in her Boston apartment.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Throttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throttle. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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