When she saw the marks all over the wall, she wanted to throttle the toddler.
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Throttle
/ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
Synonyms for "throttle" (199 found)
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Noun(19 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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16 entriesCollocations
10 entriesbandwidth throttlingelectronic throttleengine throttlethrottle bodythrottle controlthrottle leverthrottle positionthrottle responsethrottle valvewide open throttle
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- клапан noun (valve)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 節流閥 /节流阀 noun (valve)
- 風門 /风门 noun (valve)
Czech
1 entries- ventil noun (valve)
Finnish
2 entries- kaasuläppä noun (valve)
- kuristusläppä noun (valve)
French
1 entries- accélérateur noun (valve)
German
1 entries- Drossel noun (valve)
Hebrew
2 entries- מַצְעֶֽרֶת noun (valve)
- מַשְׁנֵק noun (valve)
Hungarian
2 entries- fojtószelep noun (valve)
- szelep noun (valve)
Irish
1 entries- scóig noun (valve)
Italian
3 entries- acceleratore noun (valve)
- farfalla noun (valve)
- valvola a farfalla noun (valve)
Japanese
1 entries- スロットル noun (valve)
Māori
2 entries- katirere noun (valve)
- takirere noun (valve)
Portuguese
1 entries- válvula reguladora noun (valve)
Russian
1 entries- дро́ссель noun (valve)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ventil noun (valve)
- вентил noun (valve)
Spanish
1 entries- acelerador noun (valve)
Swedish
2 entries- spjäll noun (valve)
- strypventil noun (valve)
Tagalog
1 entries- panubo noun (valve)
Turkish
1 entries- gaz noun (valve)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I need to drop these useless perceptions to take full throttle over my life.
Source: tatoeba (4606591)
The pilot controls the engine power using the throttle.
Source: tatoeba (5325844)
Simple, we'll throttle all submissions.
Source: tatoeba (6574108)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.