as in to choke
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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Between the lines: A rare alignment of weather features — some of which are up to chance and not due to climate change — also lined up to throttle the fearsome storm into the upper echelon of its potential intensity.
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Andrew Freedman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
So now Premier Xi Jinping is reverting to central control and throttling market freedoms as the population ages rapidly.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
As an exclamation point, the Dodgers throttled the New York Mets, 9-0, in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Sunday night, extending their record-tying scoreless pitching streak to 33 innings.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2024
With its Greatest Hits of eye-dilating pseudoscientific conspiracies, Hidden History of the Human Race is proudly absurd, its labyrinthine death metal riffage contracting and expanding spacetime at once, throttling us into lightspeed one second before opening up an ambient black hole the next.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Freedman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
So now Premier Xi Jinping is reverting to central control and throttling market freedoms as the population ages rapidly.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
As an exclamation point, the Dodgers throttled the New York Mets, 9-0, in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Sunday night, extending their record-tying scoreless pitching streak to 33 innings.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2024
With its Greatest Hits of eye-dilating pseudoscientific conspiracies, Hidden History of the Human Race is proudly absurd, its labyrinthine death metal riffage contracting and expanding spacetime at once, throttling us into lightspeed one second before opening up an ambient black hole the next.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Throttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throttle. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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