throttle
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Is throttle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.Examples: "Then up got Peg, and round the house gan scuttle, / In search of goods her customer to nail, / Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle, / And hollow'd,—"Ma'am, that is not what I ail.["]"; "Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]"; "From the cabin came that horrible song: "Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank. Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle.""archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).transitive
2. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).transitive
3. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.Examples: "Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck."transitive
4. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.intransitive
5. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.intransitive
6. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.Examples: "I have seen them shiver and look pale, Make periods in the midst of sentences, Throttle their practised accent in their fears."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary