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throttled
Overview of verb throttle
The verb throttle has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle -- (place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends")
2. (1) strangle, strangulate, throttle -- (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")
3. choke, throttle -- (reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor")
Antonyms of verb throttle
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb throttle
3 senses of throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
=> control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
=> restrain, suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
=> prevent, keep
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
Sense 3
choke, throttle
=> enrich
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb throttle
2 of 3 senses of throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
=> reduce, tighten
=> tie
=> gate
=> draw the line, draw a line
=> mark off, mark out
=> rule, harness, rein
=> baffle, regulate
=> hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
=> stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrain
=> clamp down, crack down
=> inhibit
=> restrain, encumber, cumber, constrain
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb throttle
3 senses of throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
=> control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
Sense 3
choke, throttle
=> enrich
'Cause To' of verb throttle
Derived Forms of verb throttle
2 of 3 senses of throttle
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
RELATED TO>(noun) throttler#1
=> garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker
RELATED TO>(noun) throttling#1
=> choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
Sense 3
choke, throttle
RELATED TO>(noun) throttle#2
=> accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun
RELATED TO>(noun) throttle#1
=> accelerator, throttle, throttle valve
Domain of verb throttle
Domain Terms of verb throttle
Familiarity of verb throttle
throttle used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb throttle
3 senses of throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
EX: They want to throttle the prisoners
Sense 3
choke, throttle
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb throttle
3 senses of throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
> control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
=> restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
=> suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
=> damp
=> mortify, subdue, cricify
=> deny, abnegate
=> restrict
=> train
=> catch
=> bate
=> thermostat
=> countercheck, counteract
Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Sense 3
choke, throttle
> enrich
=> round out, fill out
=> choke, throttle
=> fertilize, fertilise, feed
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb throttle
Sense 1
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
=> control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
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Sense 2
strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> kill
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Sense 3
choke, throttle
=> enrich
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Grep of verb throttle
throttle
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