throttling down

Verb

throttle down (third-person singular simple present throttles down, present participle throttling down, simple past and past participle throttled down)

1. To reduce power to (an engine), reduce speed
   • Therefore, before declutching, throttle down your engine.1908 March, Popular Mechanics, page 112
2. To suppress (an emotion)
   • She had throttled down the chagrin the loss had caused her, observant of conventions, leaving it until decay had robbed the debtor of the right to the respect that must be given those that are Lying Dead.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165