throttling

POS

Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun throttling has 1 sense

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

is a kind of asphyxiation, suffocation

Derived form verb throttle₂

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THESAURUS

throttling

asphyxia, asphyxiation, burking, censorship, choke, choking, crackdown, crushing, drowning, extinguishment, garrote, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, repression, smashing, smotheration, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling, strangulation, subdual, suffocating, suffocation, suppression

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