Synonyms of the word

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

accelerator

• n. One who, or that which, accelerates.
• n. A device for causing acceleration.
• n. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
• n. (vehicles) An accelerator pedal.
• n. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
• n. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.
• n. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speed the performance of an action.
• n. (computing) accelerator key.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

choke

• v. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other…
• v. (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• v. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
• v. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
• v. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at…
• v. (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially…
• v. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
• v. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
• v. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
• v. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
• n. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
• n. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
• n. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
• n. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
• n. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
• n. (electronics) choking coil.
• n. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

contain

• v. (transitive) To hold inside.
• v. (transitive) To include as a part.
• v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
• v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

enrich

• v. (transitive) To enhance.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
• v. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly.
• v. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
• v. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a…
• v. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
• v. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
• v. To add new elements, to complete.

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gun

• n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
• n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
• v. To speed something up.
• v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
• v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
• v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

pedal

• n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
• n. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.
• n. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
• n. (equestrian, humorous) A stirrup.
• n. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
• v. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
• v. To operate a bicycle.
• adj. Of or relating to the foot.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

strangle

• v. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate…
• v. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
• v. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
• v. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

strangulate

• v. (medicine) To stop flow through a vessel.
• v. To strangle.

trammel

• n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
• n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
• n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
• n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
• n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
• n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
• n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
• n. A beam compass.
• v. To entangle, as in a net.
• v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

treadle

• n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
• n. (biology) Chalaza.
• v. (intransitive) To use a treadle.

valve

• n. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
• n. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows…
• n. (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents…
• n. (Britain) A vacuum tube.
• n. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
• n. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape,…
• n. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
• n. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
• v. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.