Definitions of choke [ʃoʊk]

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Definition of 'choke'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) choke
to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.

2.  choke
to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling:
The sudden wind choked his words.

3.  choke
to stop by filling; obstruct; clog:
Grease choked the drain.

4.  choke
to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often fol. by back or down):
to choke back one's sobs.

5.  choke
to fill to the limit; pack:
The closet was choked with toys.

6.  choke
to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.

7.  choke
to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle (often fol. by up).

8. (v.i.) choke
to suffer from or as if from strangling or suffocating:
to choke on a peanut.

9.  choke
to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped:
The words choked in her throat.

10.  choke
to become too tense or nervous to perform well (sometimes fol. by up).

11.  choke
choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as if by choking:
to choke off a nation's fuel supply.

12.  choke
choke up,

13.  choke
to become or cause to become speechless, as from emotion or stress.

14. (n.) choke
the act or sound of choking.

15.  choke
any mechanism that regulates flow by blocking a passage, esp. the device in an automotive engine that controls how much air enters the carburetor.

16.  choke
a narrowed part.

17.  choke
the bristly inner part of an artichoke head.

Etymology: (1150–1200; ME choken,cheken, var. of achoken, acheken, OE ācēocian to suffocate; akin to ON kōk gullet)

Definition of 'choke'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) choke, choke coil, choking coil
a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

2. (verb) choke
a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

3. (verb) choke
breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
"She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"

4. (verb) choke, gag, fret
be too tight; rub or press
"This neckband is choking the cat"

5. (verb) choke, scrag
wring the neck of
"The man choked his opponent"

6. (verb) choke, strangle
constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

7. (verb) gag, choke, strangle, suffocate
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

8. (verb) choke
fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
"The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

9. (verb) choke
check or slow down the action or effect of
"She choked her anger"

10. (verb) clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul
become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

11. (verb) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

12. (verb) suffocate, choke
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

13. (verb) suffocate, choke
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
"His job suffocated him"

14. (verb) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
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"

15. (verb) choke, throttle
reduce the air supply
"choke a carburetor"

16. (verb) gag, choke
cause to retch or choke

Definition of 'choke'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) choke
to have sth in the throat that prevents breathing
to choke on a piece of apple; to choke to death

2. choke
to stop sb from breathing by squeezing their neck; = strangle
to choke sb to death

3. choke
to block
roads choked with protesters

Definition of 'choke'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) choke
a stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation

2. (noun) choke
the tied end of a cartridge

3. (noun) choke
a constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc

4. (verb) choke
to render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle

5. (verb) choke
to obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up

6. (verb) choke
to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle

7. (verb) choke
to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling

8. (verb) choke
to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun

9. (verb) choke
to have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled

10. (verb) choke
to be checked, as if by choking; to stick

Definitions of 'choke'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. choke
[common] To reject input, often ungracefully. “NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke.” “I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those #defines.” See barf, vi.

Translation of 'choke'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (cause to) stop, or partly stop, breathing The gas choked him; He choked to death.
Afrikaans: verstik	Arabic: يَخْنُق	Bulgarian: задушавам (се)
Brazilian: sufocar	Czech: (u)dusit (se)	German: ersticken
Danish: kvæle	Greek: πνίγω, πνίγομαι, σταματώ	Spanish: ahogar, asfixiar
Estonian: lämmatama, lämbuma	Farsi: خفه کردن؛ خفه شدن	Finnish: tukehtua
French: suffoquer,étouffer	Hebrew: לַחֲנוֹק	Hindi: श्वासावरोध होना
Croatian: gušiti se	Hungarian: fojt(ogat)	Indonesian: mencekik
Icelandic: kæfa, kyrkja	Italian: soffocare	Japanese: 窒息させる
Korean: 질식시키다	Lithuanian: (už)dusinti, uždusti	Latvian: noslāpt; nosmakt
Malay: tercekik	Dutch: (doen) stikken	Norwegian: holde på å kveles, få i v
Polish: dusić (się)	Persian: خفه کردن؛ خفه شدن	Pashto: زنۍ كول، تر بتول، خفه كول
Portuguese: sufocar	Romanian: a (se) sufoca; a (se)înec	Russian: задыхаться; задохнуться
Slovak: (za)dusiť (sa)	Slovenian: dušiti, zadušiti (se)	Serbian: ugušiti
Swedish: kväva[s]	Thai: ทำให้หายใจไม่ออก	Turkish: boğ(ul)mak, nefesi(ni) ke
Taiwanese: (使)窒息或呼吸困難	Ukrainian: душити(ся); задихатися	Urdu: سانس کا رکنا ، یا جزوی طو
Vietnamese: nghẹt thở	Chinese: （使）窒息
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