throttled

verb

past tense of throttle
as in strangled
to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe I was so angry at what he was saying that I could have throttled him!

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Recent Examples of throttled The country's blockade has throttled traffic through the channel, driving up fuel prices and threatening the global economy. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 19 June 2026 There were 11 players who, a few hours later, throttled Australia and made America forget about Pulisic’s left calf. — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 20 June 2026 The Iran war has throttled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting energy and raw material flows. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 June 2026 That geography gives them a structural advantage over Gulf producers, which have been throttled by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 With the war’s turbulence on the economy more prevalent and the internet now throttled, Russians no longer have the luxury of pretending the war in Ukraine isn’t happening. — Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 23 May 2026 Meta, which includes Facebook, also throttled the story's reach on their platforms, leading to many conservatives rightfully calling it election interference. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026 To light that fire again on WHACK’S MUSEUM, Tierra Whack spins back to her battle rap roots for a full-throttled put me in your barbershop top fives record. — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026 The Aerospace Corporation has been advancing a concept for a restartable solid rocket motor (RSRM), a propulsion configuration that has long posed engineering difficulties because conventional solid motors burn continuously once ignited and cannot be throttled or shut down mid-flight. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for throttled
  1. strangled
  2. choked
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  • Jackson had been beaten and strangled with the rope that had led the witness to her body.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
  • The empress returns to her chambers to weep, only to be strangled by a eunuch under the noble consort’s orders.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
Definition of strangled
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  • The aisles were so choked that blooms and branches brushed against us, the air heady with the scent of lilies, roses, eucalyptus, and sweet decay.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • The lines are growing at Russian gas stations — and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.
    — Dasha Litvinova, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of choked

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