THROTTLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throttling mean? 

• THROTTLING (noun)
  The noun THROTTLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

  Familiarity information: THROTTLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROTTLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

choking; strangling; strangulation; throttling

Context example:

no evidence that the choking was done by the accused

Hypernyms ("throttling" is a kind of...):

asphyxiation; suffocation (killing by depriving of oxygen)

Derivation:

throttle (kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air)

 Context examples 

The result was that he was slowly throttling White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The next instant Martin's right hand had shot to a throttling clutch on his throat, and he was being shaken till his teeth rattled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were Maud’s hands, striving vainly to tear loose the hand that was throttling me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At last he fell, toppling backward, exhausted; and the bull-dog promptly shifted his grip, getting in closer, mangling more and more of the fur- folded flesh, throttling White Fang more severely than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)