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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

... to her own wet cheeks. They could not understand this thing happening to her. They could not believe that after all their mother possessed the power to shed tears, to sob as other women do, to choke and snivel softly, to blubber inelegantly; they had always looked upon her as proof against emotion. Their mother was crying! Her back was toward them, evidence of a new weakness in her armour. It shook with the effort she made to control the cowardly ...

— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon

... quarters. I shall let her tell the long story about who is who, for there is such a swarm of cousins, and uncles, and aunts, and when you think you have hold of the right one, it turns out to be the other lot. There are three houses choke full of them, and more floating about, and all running in and out, till it gets like the little pig that could not be counted, it ran about so fast. They are all Underwood or Harewood, more or less, except ...

— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

... in which we pursue it. Our Lord alludes to the danger of multiplied occupations in the Parable of the Sower: "He that received seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he ...

— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) • John Henry Newman

... wide agape, the minister lay gasping like a fish newly taken from the water. Even now that his throat was free he appeared to struggle for a moment before he could draw breath. Then he took it in panting gulps until it seemed that he must choke in his ...

— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini

... clear—not that she was not quite free to go where she pleased, but she dreaded eyes and titters—out at the door, to the corner of the lane where for many a Sunday afternoon there had been a quiet tryste and walk. Her heart beat so as almost to choke her, and she hardly durst raise her eyes to see if the accustomed figure awaited her. Was it the accustomed figure? Her eyes dazzled so under her little holland parasol that she could hardly see, ...

— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge

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