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How to pronounce “throttle”
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Pronunciation guide for throttle
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of throttle with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Excellence in Motion
got two wheels, a throttle, and a brake, and you go ride.
- Definition summary
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce throttle
Excellence in Motion

got two wheels, a throttle, and a brake, and you go ride.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “throttle”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
- The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
- (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
- (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
- (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
- (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
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