Main entry: choke
Definition: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
Main entry: choke, choke coil, choking coil
Definition: a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
Main entry: choke
Definition: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
Usage: She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband
Definition: cause to retch or choke
Main entry: choke, gag, suffocate, strangle
Definition: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
Usage: he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
Definition: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
Definition: reduce the air supply
Usage: choke a carburetor
Main entry: snuff it, buy the farm, choke, cash in one's chips, pop off, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, go, pass, pass away, perish, die, decease, conk, drop dead, croak, exit, expire
Definition: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Usage: 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
Definition: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
Usage: His job suffocated him
Definition: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
Usage: He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village
Main entry: choke, stifle, suffocate, asphyxiate
Definition: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Usage: The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
Main entry: clog, clog up, choke, choke off, congest, foul, back up
Definition: become or cause to become obstructed
Usage: The leaves clog our drains in the Fall; The water pipe is backed up
Definition: be too tight; rub or press
Usage: This neckband is choking the cat
Definition: wring the neck of
Usage: The man choked his opponent
Main entry: choke
Definition: check or slow down the action or effect of
Usage: She choked her anger
Main entry: choke
Definition: fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
Usage: The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience