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Noun: throttling  thrótuling
  1. The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
    - choking, strangling, strangulation
Verb: throttle  thrótl
  1. Place limits on (extent or access)
    - restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine
     
  2. Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
    - strangle, strangulate
     
  3. Reduce the air supply
    - choke

Derived forms: throttlings

See also: throttler

Type of: asphyxiation, check, contain, control, curb, enrich, hold, hold in, kill, moderate, suffocation

Encyclopedia: Throttle

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