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choke

English

🔊 a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
🔊 a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
🔊 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
🔊 reduce the air supply
“choke a carburetor”
🔊 be too tight
“This neckband is choking the cat”
🔊 wring the neck of
“The man choked his opponent”
🔊 check or slow down the action or effect of
“She choked her anger”
🔊 fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
“The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience”
🔊 cause to retch or choke
🔊 struggle for breath
“he swallowed a fishbone and gagged”
🔊 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”
🔊 become or cause to become obstructed
“The leaves clog our drains in the Fall”
🔊 pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
“She died from cancer”