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Throttler

Definition: Throttler

Throttler

Noun

1. Someone who kills by strangling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "throttler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)


Synonyms: Throttler

Synonyms: choker (n), garroter (n), garrotter (n), strangler (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Throttler

English words defined with "throttler": Wariangle. (references)
Etymologies containing "throttler": sphinx. (references)

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Modern Translations: Throttler

Language Translations for "throttler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

πνίγων. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ottlerthray

   

Russian 

  

удушитель. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Throttler

Derivations

Words beginning with "throttler": throttlers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Throttler

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-r-r-t-t-t"

-1 letter: throttle.

-2 letters: trotter.

-3 letters: hotter, retort, rhetor, rotter, tother, totter.

-4 letters: helot, hotel, lotte, other, otter, retro, rotte, thole, throe, torte, toter, troth.

-5 letters: helo, herl, hero, hoer, hole, holt, lehr, lore, loth, orle, role, rote, rotl, teth, thro, tole, tore, torr, tort, tote, tret, trot.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-r-r-t-t-t"
 

+1 letter: throttlers.

 

+3 letters: lithotripter.

 

+4 letters: lithotripters, tetartohedral.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Throttler


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 72 6F 74 74 6C 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ....    .-.    ---    -    -    .-..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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