Crossword-Solution: THROTTLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Throttle | n. | The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. |
| Throttle | n. | The throttle valve. |
| Throttle | v. t. | To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. |
| Throttle | v. t. | To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. |
| Throttle | v. t. | To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine. |
| Throttle | v. i. | To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate. |
| Throttle | v. i. | To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THROTTLE (5)
Yet she screamed, loud and shrill, once, twice, a third time, before Malbihn could leap across the tent and throttle her alarming cries with his brute fingers.
The jackal then invigorated himself with a bumper for his throttle, and a fresh application to his head, and applied himself to the collection of a second meal; this was administered to the lion in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning.
Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done as much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the savings bank chartered by the nation for their especial aid.
Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.
Vitalis, who was now trying to throttle his victim, called to Marie to shut the front doors of the two shops.
Quotes with THROTTLE (3)
You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?""I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.
Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God.
Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at the appropriate time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).