Choke

[tʃəʊk] or [tʃok]

解释:

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

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

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

(verb.) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.

(verb.) reduce the air supply; 'choke a carburetor'.

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

(verb.) wring the neck of; 'The man choked his opponent'.

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

(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'.

弗朗西斯整理--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

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

(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.

(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

整理:塞尔瓦托

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Suffocate, stifle, smother, strangle, throttle.[2]. Suppress, overpower, overcome, keep down.[3]. Obstruct, close, block, stop, bar.

v. n. Be choked.

弗兰克编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle

ANT:Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit,ventilate

校对:维多利亚

解释:

v.t. to throttle: to suffocate: to stop or obstruct: to suppress.—v.i. to be choked or suffocated.—n. the action of choking.—n. Choke′-bore the bore of a gun when narrowed at the muzzle so as to concentrate the shot: a shot-gun so bored.—v.t. to bore in such a way.—n. Choke′-cherr′y a name given to certain nearly allied species of cherry natives of North America whose fruit though at first rather agreeable is afterwards astringent in the mouth.—adj. Choked suffocated clogged.—n. Choke′damp the carbonic acid gas given off by coal which accumulates in coal-mines and may suffocate those exposed to it.—adj. Choke′-full (see Chock-full).—ns. Chok′er one who chokes: a neckerchief; Chok′ing suffocation.—adj. smothering.—adj. Chok′y tending to choke: inclined to choke.—Choke off to put an end to as if by choking; Choke up to obstruct completely to suffocate.—White choker a white neckerchief worn by clergymen &c.

手打:梅尔瓦