throttled

past tense of throttle
as in choked
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 throttled The Ducks last year were throttled by eventual national champion Ohio State—the biggest-spending school in America—in the Rose Bowl back in January. Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2025 At the end of almost 4 billion years, on a planet bereft of complex life, the Earth had been suddenly throttled by the most extreme convulsions of the carbon cycle in its entire history. Peter Brannen august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
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  • On the first day of school in August 2023, Jayne Watkin watched as one of her new students came off the bus and double-hand choked three of his peers — an example of the violent behavior that would later extend to her classroom.
    IndyStar, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • All three lakes, man-made in the mid-20th century to accompany thousands of housing units, are regularly choked with algae.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • Kennedy, 71, has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The women were strangled and rendered unconscious during the attack.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Throttled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throttled. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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