Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, guna pedal that controls the throttle valve“he stepped on the gas”
Verbs
(v)strangle, strangulate, throttlekill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air“he tried to strangulate his opponent”, “A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes”