Choke
[tʃəʊk] or [tʃok]
Definition
(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'.
Checked by Francis--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Salvatore
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Suffocate, stifle, smother, strangle, throttle.[2]. Suppress, overpower, overcome, keep down.[3]. Obstruct, close, block, stop, bar.
v. n. Be choked.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle
ANT:Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit,ventilate
Checker: Victoria
Definition
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.
Checker: Melva
Examples
- They only choke you. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In sleep, upon the march, night or day, he never knew when that quiet noose would slip about his neck and nearly choke the life out of him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He felt Agustín beside him start to cough, felt him hold it, choke and swallow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It ended suddenly on its highest note with a choke and a gurgle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'd hold you under the pump, and choke it out of you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Her voice was choked as she went on--was quavering as with the contemplation of some strange, yet closely-present idea. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her Battle of Armageddon, cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He drew his arms tightly over his bosom, and choked back the bitter tears, and tried to pray. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I saw him served with the best of everything--and I shouldn't have been sorry if the best of everything had choked him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Two ropes would be put about the neck of each animal, with a slip noose, so that he could be choked if too unruly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Looking round the office, as if her father were a captive and this his cell, Bella hugged him and choked him to her heart's content. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I went down to him, choking for breath, with my heart leaping as if it was like to leap out of me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- After giving a great heave, and with a purple choking face, he then began. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And, with streaming eyes and choking voice, the black man looked up to heaven. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oh oh oh oh, then choking, Mama mama mia. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I felt that I was choking again--I taxed myself with it, Esther, now, you know you are! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now she laughed--a little choking gurgle of a laugh; but it was enough. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was evident to him that he soon must die unless he tore loose from the steel fingers that were choking the life from him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The blood of Danton chokes him, cried someone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Next our peaceful Tupman comes, So rosy, plump, and sweet, Who chokes with laughter at the puns, And tumbles off his seat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The two party system chokes off the cry of a minority--perhaps the best way there is of precipitating an explosion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I taste it, smell it, see it, it chokes me, and then it breaks out like this. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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