CHOKE

choke

(noun) a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

choke, choke coil, choking coil

(noun) a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

choke

(verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; “She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband”

gag, choke

(verb) cause to retch or choke

gag, choke, strangle, suffocate

(verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; “he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”

choke, strangle

(verb) constrict (someone’s) throat and keep from breathing

choke, throttle

(verb) reduce the air supply; “choke a carburetor”

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; “She died from cancer”; “The children perished in the fire”; “The patient went peacefully”; “The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102”

suffocate, choke

(verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; “His job suffocated him”

suffocate, choke

(verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; “He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village”

suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke

(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; “The foul air was slowly suffocating the children”

clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul

(verb) become or cause to become obstructed; “The leaves clog our drains in the Fall”; “The water pipe is backed up”

choke, gag, fret

(verb) be too tight; rub or press; “This neckband is choking the cat”

choke, scrag

(verb) wring the neck of; “The man choked his opponent”

choke

(verb) check or slow down the action or effect of; “She choked her anger”

choke

(verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; “The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)

(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).

(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

Synonyms: asphyxiate, strangle, suffocate, throttle

(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

Synonyms: block up, bung up, clog, congest, jam, obstruct, stop up

(transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).

Synonyms: choke out, stifle

(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking

Synonym: stick

(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.

(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.

(transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.

(transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).

(transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.

(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

Noun

choke (plural chokes)

A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.

A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.

A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.

The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

(electronics) choking coil

A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

Source: Wiktionary

Choke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] Etym: [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. aceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]

1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.

4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.

5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

Choke, v. i.

1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.

Choke, n.

1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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