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1. The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
   "no evidence that the throttling was done by the accused";
   - choking, strangling, strangulation

1. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
   - restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine
    
2. Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
   - strangle, strangulate
    
3. Reduce the air supply
   "throttle a carburettor";
   - choke

Derived forms: throttlings

Type of: asphyxiation, enrich, kill, suffocation

Encyclopedia: Throttling