noun. A valve that regulates the flow of a fluid, such as the valve in an internal-combustion engine that controls the amount of vaporized fuel entering the cylinders.

noun. A lever or pedal controlling such a valve.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To regulate the flow of (fuel) in an engine.

transitive verb. To regulate the speed of (an engine) with a throttle.

transitive verb. To suppress.

transitive verb. To strangle (a person); choke.

In electricity, to reduce (the flux in a magnetic circuit) by diminishing the cross-section of the iron traversed by the lines of force, or by the introduction of joints or air-gaps.

To choke; suffocate; have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation.

To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

To choke; suffocate; stop the breath of by compressing the throat; strangle.

To pronounce with a choking voice; utter with breaks and interruptions, like a person half suffocated.

To obstruct by a throttle-valve or otherwise: said of steam, a steam-pipe, or a steam-engine.

Synonyms Strangle, etc. See smother.

noun. The throat.

noun. The windpipe or thropple: same as throat, 2 .

noun. A throttle-valve.

noun. The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

noun. The throttle valve.

noun. the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive.

noun. a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

intransitive verb. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

intransitive verb. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

transitive verb. To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.

transitive verb. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

transitive verb. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

noun. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.

noun. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

verb. To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).

verb. To strangle or choke someone.

verb. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

verb. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

verb. place limits on (extent or access)

noun. a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine

noun. a pedal that controls the throttle valve

verb. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

verb. reduce the air supply

"The sneaky thing about the virus is that it steps on your endorphin throttle pretty hard as it goes to work."

throttled  throttling  

enrich  foot lever  foot pedal  pedal  treadle  

bottel  bottle  cottle  glottal  pottle  

accelerator  actuator  adjustable  brake  deckedge  

abduct  arrest  asphyxiate  backpedal  backwater  

throttled  throttles  throttling