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choke English

Meaning choke meaning

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Definitions in simple English

choke Verb

— Not being able to breathe because something stops your windpipe. — To perform badly at an important part of a contest because you are fearful, especially when you are winning. — A part of a cave to be partly or completely blocked by rocks, mud, or other things. — To move your fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

choke Noun

— A control on a carburetor to change the air or fuel mixture when the engine is cold. — In wrestling, karate, or other sports, grabbing someone in a way that can make them stop breathing. — A pressure at the muzzle part of a shotgun barrel which changes the spread of the shot. — A slight or complete block (of rocks, mud, or other things) in a cave passage.

choke

— verb breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband — verb be too tight; rub or press This neckband is choking the cat — verb wring the neck of The man choked his opponent — verb constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing — verb (= gag) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake he swallowed a fishbone and gagged — verb reduce the air supply choke a carburetor — 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 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 — verb cause to retch or choke — verb (= suffocate) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of His job suffocated him — verb (= suffocate) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village — verb (= suffocate) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of The foul air was slowly suffocating the children — verb (= clog, back up) become or cause to become obstructed The leaves clog our drains in the Fall The water pipe is backed up — verb (= die, perish, go, pass, kick the bucket) 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

Synonyms choke synonyms

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choke English » English

strangle suffocate throttle stifle block smother gag clog asphyxiate suppress snuff it quell pop off perish pass away pass kick the bucket go expire exit drop dead die decease croak conk congest cash in one’s chips buy the farm suffocation strangulate stop squeeze scrag give-up the ghost drown tamp swallow stuff strangler stopper stop up ring down the curtain press plug pass on fill demise choking coil choke off choke coil

Topics choke topics

What do people use choke to talk about?
Person Body functions

Breathe, breath
Person Life Die

Kill
Daily life Food

Eat

  • What words refer to difficulty in swallowing?
    choke gag
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover
Person Life

Die
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Cry, tear

Conjugation choke conjugation

How do you conjugate choke?

choke · verb

Examples choke examples

How do I use choke in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Carol couldn't choke back her tears.
He tried to choke him.
Tom started to choke.
Tom just tried to choke me.

Movie subtitles

We eat through our mouths but we breathe through our mouths and we can choke on food.
I thought I saw it fly out of your hand after you threw a choke hold on that girl.
If I don't get out of this house pretty soon, I'll choke.
Yes, but don't you see you've got to pull the choke! Sometimes these get a bit cold.
What's this string doing here? Hey, that's the choke!
Choke off the oxygen.
And don't choke yourself.
If I don't choke her before Saturday.
I should choke you.
That will choke him and keep the blood from rushing from his brain.
Let's go to Frankenstein and choke the truth out of him.
Here, don't gulp it, now. You'll choke yourself.
Choke your luff.
I'd get all tangled up in that stuff and choke myself to death.
I hope you choke on it.
Would you hold his bottle and see he doesn't choke?
Him no choke.
I'd get tangled up in that stuff and choke myself.
Swallow your tongue woman and choke yourself!
If I could get my hands on that woman, I'd choke the truth out of her.
You can't choke the truth out of someone.
Your pride? I bet you it ain't big enough to choke on as it goes down.
And pull the choke lever.
But I'd sure choke on it if I figured taking it Gave anybody any wrong ideas.
Louisville bound with a bank roll big enough to choke a cow.
I'm not going to choke on the dregs.
But I'm gonna leave you enough money to choke a horse, and I hope it does choke ya.
It looks like it'll choke you.
Why don't I choke you a little?
No, no. You'll choke him.
I don't want you to choke to death.
May he choke on his beard!

News and current affairs

Bubble-pricking may indeed choke off growth unnecessarily - and at high social cost.
What this pattern suggests is that the Party can rarely choke down more than the smallest dose of political reform, much less outright criticism before reacting in an almost autonomic fashion against it.
Last year, many investors questioned the ECB's ability to launch a bond-buying program in the face of German opposition, and many others doubted the Fed's willingness to tighten monetary policy, because doing so could choke off the US economic recovery.
But if regulations are not well tailored to the various types of market participants and to how markets actually work, they can choke off opportunities that would otherwise benefit investors and the economy.
Will Fed Tightening Choke Emerging Markets?
Or, if these deficits are monetized, high inflation may force up long-term interest rates and again choke off economic recovery.
But history shows that the same structures can also choke off innovation.
Also, if exit occurs by selling the long-term assets purchased during QE, a sharp increase in interest rates might choke off recovery, resulting in large financial losses for holders of long-term bonds.
The danger today is that short-sighted protectionist reactions to the economic crisis could help to choke off the economic globalization that has spread growth and raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the past half-century.
Bubble-pricking may indeed choke off growth unnecessarily - and at high social cost. But there is a counter-argument.
Dust and smog choke its cities.
Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister's underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke-hold on other media.
But in the US, where the dollar's gains are threatening to choke off economic recovery, officials at the Federal Reserve are expressing signs of concern.
Try, for example, to swallow a salami whole, and you will probably choke to death.
Either way, a rise in long-term interest rates is liable to choke off the recovery.
Indeed, Georgia is Russia's choke point in its policy of using oil and gas as strategic foreign policy weapons, which it has done repeatedly.
As its power grows, China seems determined to choke off Asian competitors, a tendency reflected in its hardening stance toward India.
During the Boer War, the British had to send mincing machines to South Africa, so that soldiers were not forced to choke down unmasticated lumps of meat.

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