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Choke

verb

(past & past part. choked; pres. part. choking)

1.

Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.

2.

Be too tight; rub or press. Synonyms: fret, gag.

3.

Wring the neck of. Synonym: scrag.

4.

Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing. Synonym: strangle.

5.

Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake. Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate.

6.

Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation.

7.

Check or slow down the action or effect of.

8.

Become or cause to become obstructed. Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul. "The water pipe is backed up"

9.

Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of. Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate.

10.

Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled. Synonym: suffocate.

11.

Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of. Synonym: suffocate.

12.

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it. "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

13.

Reduce the air supply. Synonym: throttle.

14.

Cause to retch or choke. Synonym: gag.

noun

1.

A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current. Synonyms: choke coil, choking coil.

2.

A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.

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"Choke" Quotes from Famous Books

... cerises. Three kinds may here be included, the wild red cherry, Prunus Pennsylvanica, the choke cherry. Prunus Virginiana, and the wild ...

— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain

... with which Grannie Thornton was conveying a piece of the trout to her mouth dropped from her hand. The last piece she had eaten seemed to choke her. Then she tottered to her feet with a wrench that made ...

— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith

... which Uncle Zebedee had tried to choke at its birth now came out shrill, long and expressive, and Adam, jumping up, said, "Come, come, Eve: we've had enough of this. Surely there isn't any need to take such idle talk as serious matter. If you and me hadn't seen some good ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... he stood there alone in the cabin, he muttered something to himself. The desire possessed him to cry out aloud that Tavish had cheated him. A strange kind of rage burned within him and he turned toward the door, with clenched hands, as if about to rush out and choke from the dead man's throat what he wanted to know, and force his glazed and staring eyes to look for just one instant on the face of the girl in the picture. In another moment his brain had cleared itself of that insane fire. After ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

... first opening months, And let the clods lie bare till baked to dust By the ripe suns of summer; but if the earth Less fruitful just ere Arcturus rise With shallower trench uptilt it- 'twill suffice; There, lest weeds choke the crop's luxuriance, here, Lest the scant moisture fail the barren sand. Then thou shalt suffer in alternate years The new-reaped fields to rest, and on the plain A crust of sloth to harden; or, when stars Are changed in heaven, there sow the golden grain Where erst, luxuriant with its quivering ...

— The Georgics • Virgil

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