Throttling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for THROTTLING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of throttling
• a device controlling the flow of fuel or power to an engine
• reduce the power of an engine or vehicle by use of the throttle
• attack or kill (someone) by choking or strangling them
• control (an engine or vehicle) with a throttle
• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
• a person's throat, gullet, or windpipe.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strangle

Words related to THROTTLING

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Words that contain THROTTLING

throttlings15

How to use THROTTLING in a sentence

• Upon the classes of this country, democracy has laid a throttling hand.
• All intermediate speeds were obtained by throttling the engine.
• The wire drawing of the steam causes a loss of part of its power, and the result will not be quite so advantageous by throttling as by cutting off.
• At the next instant, his master was at the throat of the offender, throttling him till he was black in the face.
• We are jealous of our law, as you would be jealous of the air denied your body by a throttling hand on your throat.
• It pleased Michelangelo so much that he gave him a wax model of a Hercules throttling Antaeus, by his own hand, together with some drawings.
• We could get not an inch on the main trace of the sledge or on the leading rope, which was binding Osman to the snow with a throttling pressure.
• I managed to give that first cry for help, then with all my strength I tried to unfasten the grip that was throttling the life out of me.
• It was also unsatisfactory to the extreme anti-slavery Whigs of the new organisation who insisted upon throttling slavery where-ever it existed.
• Literally throttling him, he pulled him backward over the balcony railing for a fall clear to the lower hall.
• The great eating up of the Irish land, the throttling of the natural wealth of that country, began with the ill work done in the Elizabethan age.
• Seeing it, he realized at the same instant that Patricia was neither throttling the motor nor applying the brakes.
• At each mention of the Ladies Eleanor and Alfrida, she shook her fist, and made signs with her old fingers, as of throttling, in the air.
• In throttling, the marks of the finger-nails are found on the neck.
• It was governed by throttling the suction, the governor being controlled by the pressure in the air receiver and the motor running continuously at a constant speed.
• He felt his heart thumping, but his first throttling grip of fear loosened as his mind realized their helplessness.
• I managed to give that first cry for help, and with all my strength I tried to unfasten the grip that was throttling the life out of me.
• Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual, and even the original Puritans, for all their fire, felt its throttling caress.

Similar words containing THROTTL without suffix ing

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