throttle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
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• General-American: /ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈθɹɑ.tl̩/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒtəl
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• CMU ARPABET: TH R AA1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat + -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.

From Middle English throtlen (“to choke, strangle, suffocate”), from the noun (see above). Compare German erdrosseln (“to strangle, choke, throttle”).

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: клапан (klapan) — valve
• Chinese Mandarin: 風門 /风门 (fēngmén) — valve
• Chinese Mandarin: 節流閥 /节流阀 (jiéliúfá) — valve
• Czech: ventil — valve
• Finnish: kuristusläppä — valve
• Finnish: kaasuläppä — valve
• French: accélérateur — valve
• German: Drossel — valve
• Hebrew: מַשְׁנֵק — valve
• Hebrew: מַצְעֶֽרֶת — valve
• Hungarian: szelep — valve
• Hungarian: fojtószelep — valve
• Irish: scóig — valve
• Italian: acceleratore — valve
• Italian: farfalla — valve
• Italian: valvola a farfalla — valve
• Japanese: スロットル (surottoru) — valve
• Māori: katirere — valve
• Māori: takirere — valve
• Norwegian Bokmål: spjeld — valve
• Portuguese: válvula reguladora — valve
• Russian: дро́ссель (drósselʹ) — valve
• Serbo-Croatian: вентил — valve
• Serbo-Croatian: ventil — valve
• Spanish: acelerador — valve
• Swedish: strypventil — valve
• Swedish: spjäll — valve
• Tagalog: panubo — valve
• Turkish: gaz — valve
• Chinese Mandarin: 油門 /油门 (yóumén) — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Dutch: versneller — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Finnish: kaasupoljin — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Finnish: kaasu — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• French: accélérateur — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• West-Frisian: fersneller — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Galician: acelerador — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• German: Gaspedal — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Hungarian: gázpedál — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Hungarian: gáz — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Italian: pedale — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Italian: manetta — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Japanese: アクセル (akuseru) — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Japanese: アクセレレーター (akusererētā) — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Norwegian Bokmål: gasspedal — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Portuguese: acelerador — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Russian: акселера́тор (akselerátor) — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Serbo-Croatian: papučica gasa — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Serbo-Croatian: pedala gasa — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Spanish: acelerador — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Swedish: gaspedal — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Turkish: gaz pedalı — the lever or pedal that controls this valve
• Bulgarian: забавям (zabavjam) — to cut back speed
• Czech: brzdit — to cut back speed
• Finnish: hidastaa jonkin vauhtia — to cut back speed
• French: limiter — to cut back speed
• German: drosseln — to cut back speed
• Hungarian: lassít — to cut back speed
• Hungarian: fékez — to cut back speed
• Hungarian: lefékez — to cut back speed
• Italian: rallentare — to cut back speed
• Russian: замедля́ть (zamedljátʹ) — to cut back speed
• Serbo-Croatian: oduzeti gas — to cut back speed
• Spanish: ralentizar — to cut back speed
• Spanish: limitar — to cut back speed
• Spanish: lentificar — to cut back speed
• Spanish: enlentecer — to cut back speed
• Spanish: desacelerar — to cut back speed
• Spanish: frenar — to cut back speed
• Spanish: reducir — to cut back speed
• Bulgarian: душа (duša) — to strangle someone
• Bulgarian: задушавам (zadušavam) — to strangle someone
• Chinese Mandarin: 掐死 (qiāsǐ) — to strangle someone
• Czech: škrtit — to strangle someone
• Dutch: wurgen — to strangle someone
• Finnish: kuristaa — to strangle someone
• French: étrangler — to strangle someone
• German: würgen — to strangle someone
• Ancient Greek: ἄγχω (ánkhō) — to strangle someone
• Hungarian: megfojt — to strangle someone
• Italian: soffocare — to strangle someone
• Latin: angō — to strangle someone
• Latin: offōcō — to strangle someone
• Latin: strangulō — to strangle someone
• Marathi: गळा दाबणे (gaḷā dābṇe) — to strangle someone
• Polish: dusić — to strangle someone
• Portuguese: estrangular — to strangle someone
• Russian: души́ть (dušítʹ) — to strangle someone
• Scottish Gaelic: tachd — to strangle someone
• Scottish Gaelic: mùch — to strangle someone
• Serbo-Croatian: zagušiti — to strangle someone
• Serbo-Croatian: zadaviti — to strangle someone
• Spanish: estrangular — to strangle someone
• Spanish: sofocar — to strangle someone
• Swedish: strypa — to strangle someone
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغمق (boğmak) — to strangle someone
• Ukrainian: души́ти (dušýty) — to strangle someone
• Ukrainian: задуши́ти (zadušýty) — to strangle someone