Defenition of the word choke
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Defenition of the word choke
- To cease to live.
- To squeeze the neck in order to compress the carotide and/or trachea, possibly leading to unconsciousness or death.
- A person who kills by strangling.
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is chocking the cat"
- wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
- reduce the air supply; of carburetors
- become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
- cause to retch or choke
- struggle for breath
- die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
- kill by constricting the throat and preventing from breathing; "Othello suffocated Desdemona with a pillow"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- constrict (someone''s) throat and keep from breathing
- reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"
- die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- be too tight; rub or press
- wring the neck of
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
Synonyms for the word choke
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- back up
- block
- buy the farm
- choke coil
- choke off
- choking coil
- clog
- clog up
- congest
- conk
- croak
- dam
- die suddenly
- die unexpectedly
- drop dead
- fill
- fill up
- foul
- fret
- gag
- garrote
- grip high
- halt
- kick the bucket
- obstruct
- plug
- pop off
- scrag
- shorten your grip
- snuff it
- stifle
- stop up
- strangle
- suffocate
- throttle
Similar words in the choke
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- choke
- choked
- choker
- choker's
- chokers
- chokes
Meronymys for the word choke
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- circuit
- electric circuit
- electrical circuit
- fuel system
Hyponyms for the word choke
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- abort
- asphyxiate
- automatic choke
- block
- buy it
- choke up
- crap up
- drown
- fall
- famish
- gum up
- lug
- pip out
- predecease
- silt
- silt up
- starve
- stifle
- stuff
- succumb
- suffocate
- yield
Hypernyms for the word choke
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- become
- block
- bottle up
- breathe
- change state
- close up
- coil
- compact
- compress
- constrict
- contract
- dampen
- decease
- die
- enrich
- exit
- expire
- fail
- go
- hurt
- impede
- inhibit
- jam
- neglect
- obstruct
- obturate
- occlude
- pass
- pass away
- perish
- press
- respire
- sicken
- squeeze
- stifle
- suffer
- suppress
- suspire
- take a breath
- turn
- valve
Antonyms for the word choke
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