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say it: chohk
choke is a verb and noun meaning "breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion". It is pronounced /ˈtʃoʊk/ — chohk. It carries 16 recorded senses.
breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
“She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband”
wring the neck of
“The man choked his opponent”
fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
“The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience”
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
“The foul air was slowly suffocating the children”
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”
a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for choke come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.