Definitions For Throttle

noun

  • A valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
  • A pedal that controls the throttle valve
  • A device that controls the flow of fuel to an engine

verb

  • Reduce the air supply
  • Place limits on (extent or amount or access)
  • Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
  • To choke or strangle (someone)
  • To defeat (someone or something) easily or completely
  • To not allow (something) to grow or develop

Is Throttle a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
11

The word Throttle is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Throttle in a Sentence

  • He throttled her in a fit of jealous rage.
  • I'm so mad I could throttle her!
  • When you press a car's accelerator, it opens the throttle, and the car goes faster.

Synonyms for Throttle

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