All throttle synonyms
throt·tle
T t verb throttle
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- wring — to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
- corking — excellent
- asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
- obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
- occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
- gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- get in the way — be an obstacle
- drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
- choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
noun throttle
- accelerator — The accelerator in a car or other vehicle is the pedal which you press with your foot in order to make the vehicle go faster.