choke
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.
Inflected forms:
form: chokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: choking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: choked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: choked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: choak
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: choake
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: choake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.
See your brain - Choke, choke, choke
Watch it drain - Choke, choke, choke
See your greed - Choke, choke, choke
Watch it breed - Choke, choke, choke
Fake, you're falling down
Choke, your neck is broken
Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.
gloss: To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]
gloss: To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through it.
But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.
There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.
The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.
gloss: To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
And some [seeds] fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22,
No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;
But Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn.
I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.
gloss: To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.
“I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”
gloss: To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.
gloss: To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.
gloss: To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] the words choked in his throat.
Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.
gloss: To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;
[…] tears choked the utterance of the dame de compagnie, and she buried her crushed affections and her poor old red nose in her pocket handkerchief.
At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.
Her laugh got choked by a sob.
Danny let out a soft, half-choked, trembling moan.
gloss: To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.
2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435,
Tajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?
gloss: To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]
I shall run distracted. My rage choaks me.
And my remembrance of them both, choking me, I broke down […] and laid my face in my hands upon the table.
Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.
gloss: To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.
“The bastards!” he choked. “I hope they are all caught and hanged!”
gloss: To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.
gloss: To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
pos: verb
gloss: A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
pos: noun
gloss: In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
pos: noun
gloss: A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
pos: noun
gloss: A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
pos: noun
gloss: A choking coil.
pos: noun
gloss: A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
pos: noun
Derived words: air choke
blood choke
breadcutter choke
chokable
choke a darkie
choke and puke
choke back
chokeberry
chokebore
choke chain
choker chain
chokecherry
choke-children
choke collar
choke damp
chokedamp
choke-dog
choke down
choke-full
choke-hold
choke hold
chokehold
choke-me
choke off
choke on
choke out
choke pear
chokepoint
choke point
choke price
choke-priest
choker
chokeslam
chokestrap
choke the chicken
choke the luff
choke tube
choke up
chokey
choky
chokily
choking bloom
choking coil
chokecoil
chokingly
dechoke
enough to choke a horse
enough to choke a snake
full choke
guillotine choke
multichoke
nonchoked
one throat to choke
rear naked choke
rope and choke
too much pudding will choke a dog
unchoke
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