- to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words.
- to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain.
- to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down): I managed to choke back my tears.
- to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture.
- to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
- to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
- to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up).
- to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food.
- to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat.
- the act or sound of choking.
- a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
- any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
- choke coil.
- a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
- the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.
- to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply.
- choke up,
- to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: She choked up over the sadness of the tale.
- to become too tense or nervous to perform well: Our team began to choke up in the last inning.
- to hinder or stop the breathing of (a person or animal), esp by constricting the windpipe or by asphyxiation
- to have trouble or fail in breathing, swallowing, or speaking
- to block or clog up (a passage, pipe, street, etc)
- to retard the growth or action of
- to suppress (emotion)
- to die
- to enrich the petrol-air mixture by reducing the air supply to (a carburettor, petrol engine, etc)
- (esp in sport) to be seized with tension and fail to perform well
- the act or sound of choking
- a device in the carburettor of a petrol engine that enriches the petrol-air mixture by reducing the air supply
- any constriction or mechanism for reducing the flow of a fluid in a pipe, tube, etc
- an inductor having a relatively high impedance, used to prevent the passage of high frequencies or to smooth the output of a rectifier
- the inedible centre of the head of an artichoke
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