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
In my opinion, the hardest commercial decision a founder makes is to deliberately throttle growth.
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Ali Aydan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Warsh can help by lifting the cost of credit to throttle both consumer and corporate spending, and sell bonds the Fed’s holding to target the latter.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2026
With the war’s turbulence on the economy more prevalent and the internet now throttled, Russians no longer have the luxury of pretending the war in Ukraine isn’t happening.
—Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
Span can also throttle nonurgent workloads or transfer them to other nodes in the fleet.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
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Ali Aydan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Warsh can help by lifting the cost of credit to throttle both consumer and corporate spending, and sell bonds the Fed’s holding to target the latter.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2026
With the war’s turbulence on the economy more prevalent and the internet now throttled, Russians no longer have the luxury of pretending the war in Ukraine isn’t happening.
—Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
Span can also throttle nonurgent workloads or transfer them to other nodes in the fleet.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throttle
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Green Bay then choked away a 21-3 halftime lead and a 21-6 advantage after three quarters in an eventual 31-27 loss to Chicago in the Wild Card round.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Police in the northwest Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights have released a sketch of a man accused of attacking and choking a woman this past weekend.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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He had been arrested for allegedly strangling his then-girlfriend, Johnny Faye Cartwright, in 2020.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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Another was strangled and left in an alley, and a third died from blunt-force trauma to the head, prosecutors said.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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“Throttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throttle. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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