Throttler
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who or that which throttles. figuratively, sometimes
"[…] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade."
- 2 someone who kills by strangling wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade."
Etymology
From throttle + -er.
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