Choke

Definition: Choke

Choke

Noun

1. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.

2. A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.

Verb

1. Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband".

2. Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat".

3. Wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent".

4. Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.

5. Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged".

6. Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience".

7. Check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger".

8. Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up".

9. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children".

10. : die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket".

11. : reduce the air supply; of carburetors.

12. : cause to retch or choke.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "choke" was first used: sometime around 1303. (references)

Note: Choke \Choke\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Choked; Choking.]. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Industry

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Slang

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CHOKE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Choke

Bane

Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane.

Closure

(hinder); bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.

Completeness

Brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete; (redundant); fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden.

Hindrance

Cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Killing

Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.

Redundancy

Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander).

Crosswords: Choke

German (choke), Swedish (choke).

You could choke a dozen donkeys on that (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

I'm just trying to choke down a twenty-year-old Twinkie (Die Hard; writing credit: Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart)

And you, eater of worlds, may you taste our righteous fire and choke on it (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

So you choke up. Control, but no power (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Because you have no idea just how frustrating it is working your ass off trying to inflate a tiny little balloon inside somebody's clogged artery when all that person has to do, really is--oh, I don't know--go for a walk in the morning or choke down a fresh green salad (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

If its time to lick of shots he don't choke (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)

To choke you to death wit a Charleston chew (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

I would choke on the rhines (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6)

You choke down all your anger (Broadway; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

All stressed out, and no one to choke. (references; author: unknown)

When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn? (references; author: unknown)

Choke Canyon (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Art to Choke Hearts and Pissing in the Gene Pool: Collected Writing 1985-1987 (reference)

• Countdown Ww III: Operation Choke Point, No. 3 (reference)

• The Unnoticed Challenge: Soviet Maritime Strategy and the Global Choke Points (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Choke (reference)

• Rickson Gracie: Choke (reference)

• Choke Canyon (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Choke [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 5100e 1000lpm Closed Ped with Choke Line Printer (reference)

• 5100fs 1000lpm with Zero Paper Tear Closed Ped Choke Line Printer (reference)

• MOBILE AUTHORITY HSX-1 Passive Subwoofer Choke (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Weeds choke flood dammaged farm of African American farmer Bennie Butler in Calhoun County, GA. Credit: USDA.

Only one out of every three people smokes. : The other two choke. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Corona rings and choke coils on transmission line connecting superstructure. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't choke & rob workers of the right to strike : so-called voluntary arbitration, a trap for the worker : oppose arbitration tribunal!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The man will choke and try to put the blame on Mae.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

As the disease progresses, persons with HD may even choke. (references)

During a seizure, there is a small chance that the child may be injured by falling or may choke from food or saliva in the mouth. (references)

Business

Due to high costs and low scale, these firms choke demand through high prices. (references)

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems are in use at choke points like tunnels and bridges, and are used to alert the emergency services to potential blockages or hazards. (references)

Most of these come equipped with catalytic converters that are removed upon entry to the Kingdom, as they would not only choke with lead deposits but could also cause a fire hazard. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "choke": automatic choke ♦ choke back ♦ choke chair ♦ choke coil ♦ choke damp ♦ choke down ♦ choke off ♦ Choke pear ♦ choke piston ♦ choke plunger ♦ Choke pondweed ♦ choke the life out of smb. ♦ choke the sprue ♦ choke up ♦ choke with ♦ small choke ♦ To choke off. Additional references.

Beginning with "choke": choke-bore, choke-chain, choke-free, Choke-full, choke-pear, Choke-strap.

Ending with "choke": twin-choke.

Afrikaans

onderdruk (quell, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Albanian

valvul ajri, përmbaj (carry, check, comprise, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), mbytje (garrotte, glut, stifling, strangulation, submergence, submersion, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery, wreck, wrecking), mbytem (be drowned, drown, drown oneself, get drowned, go under, smother), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck), i marr frymën, asfiksim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غص بالطعام, ‏تشوك المخنقة في السيارة, ‏عمل المخنقة, ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏خنق (asphyxiate, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏العنق (neck), ‏الشراقة, ‏إنسد (be blocked up, clog, fill, freeze, jam, shut, stop), ‏إختنق (asphyxiate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏أترع (brim, swamp), ‏أشرق بالماء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърцевина на артишок, клапа на машина, запушвам се (clog, foul, stop), запушалка (obturator, peg, plug, spile, stopper, tampion, tap, wad), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stew, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), задавяне (gulp), задавям, дросел (gun, reactor, throttle), давя (bait, drown, strangle, worry). (various references)

Chinese 

阻气, 窒息 (stifle, suffocate), 噎 , 嗆 (against wind, pungent). (various references)

Czech

sytiè, rdousit, dusit se (choke up, stew, stifle, suffocate), dávit (vomit), škrtit. (various references)

Danish

kvæle (strangle). (various references)

Dutch

wurgen (strangle), worgen (strangle), choken (strangle). (various references)

Esperanto

sufokiĝi, sufoki (quell, suffocate, suppress), strangoli (strangle). (various references)

Faeroese

kyrkja (strangle), kvala (quell, strangle, suffocate, suppress), køva (quell, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Farsi 

مسدودکردن (Bar, Bloc, Block, Calk, Clog, Close, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Preclude, Scotch), خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Extinguish, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), انسداد (Bloc, Block, Blockade, Blockage, Let, Obstruction, Occlusion, Padlock, Stockade), اختناق (Asphyxia), دریچه (Closure, Hatch, Lid, Porthole, Scuttle, Slacker, Valve, Vent, Wicket, Window), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references)

Finnish

tukehduttaa (quell, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

French

suffoquer, starter (carburettor choke control), bobine de réactance, étouffer. (various references)

Frisian

wurgje (strangle), wjirgje (strangle). (various references)

German

Drossel (throstle, throttle, thrush), würgen (gulp, retch, strangle, struggle, throttle, to choke, to retch), starterzug (carburettor choke control), erwürgen (quell, strangle, strangulation, suffocate, suppress, throttle), ersticken (asphyxiate, be suffocated, become choked, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, quell, smother, snuff, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle), erdrosseln (quell, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to strangle), drosseln (bluebirds, choke off, down, gear down, reduce, restrict, robins, strangle, throstles, throttle, throttle back, throttle down, thrushes). (various references)

Greek 

στραγγαλίζω (garrotte, scrag, strangle, strangulate, throttle). (various references)

Hebrew 

משנק (throttle), לחנוק (garrote, stifle, strangle, strangulate), להחניק (asphyxiate, smother, stifle, strangle), לסתום (clog, close up, conceal, plug, shut, stop, stop up, wad). (various references)

Hungarian

szivató, szívató fojtószelep, megfulladás (choking, drowning, smothering, suffocation), megfojtás (choking, garotte, garrotte, smothering, strangling, strangulation), fuldoklik (to suffocate), fuldoklás (choking), fojtás (choking, garrote, suffocation, wad), fojt (strangle, to deaden, to tamp, to wad), elfojtódás. (various references)

Indonesian

tersedak, mencekiki (repeatedly smother), mencekik (garotte, strangle), bengkal. (various references)

Italian

soffocare (quell, smother, squash, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

片十字締め (cross choke), 噎せ返る (to choke, to sob convulsively), 噎せる (to be choked by, to choke over), 涙を呑む (to choke back one's tears, to pocket an insult), 支える (to be blocked, to be obstructed, to choke, to feel a pressure on one's chest, to prop, to support). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なみだをのむ (to choke back one's tears, to pocket an insult), つかえる (to be blocked, to be obstructed, to be serviceable, to be useful, to choke, to feel a pressure on one's chest, to serve, to work for), かたじゅうじじめ (cross choke), むせかえる (to choke, to sob convulsively), むせる (to be choked by, to choke over, to cough). (various references)

Korean 

초크. (various references)

Manx

toghteyr, toghtey (choking, clog, clogging, dyspnoea, foul, garrotte, jugulate; strangling, strangle, strangulation, throttle, throttling), plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), keylaghey (choke bore, constrict, constriction, contraction, dilute, dilution, slim, taper, watering, weaken, weaken as mixture, weakening, whittle down). (various references)

Norwegian

kvele. (various references)

Papiamen

choka (strangle). (various references)

Pig Latin

okechay.(various references)

Portuguese

sufocar (quell, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), estrangular (emote, garotte, garrotte, mug, quell, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), estrangulamento (narrow, stricture), aperto (abashment, bind, clench, clutch, crush, grasp, grip, gripe, hug, hustle, jam, jamming, narrowness, perplexity, pinch, screw, shake, squeeze, stricture, tightness), abafar (blanket, burke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

se sufoca (gag, smother, stifle, strangle), înãbuşire (black out, repression), îneca (deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), înfundare (packing, stick), asfixia (asphyxiate, smother, suffocate), astupãtoare (Cork, cover, stopper), gâtui (narrow down, strangle, throttle), nãpãdi (fill, flood, invade, overgrow, overrun), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), se înfunda, umple (clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), se umple (bulk, fill), stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, silence, slack, slake, smother, wither), strangula (Burke, garrotte, strangle, throttle), sufoca (asphyxiate, smother, stifle, suffocate, throttle), sugruma (Burke, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suppress, throttle), sugrumare (strangulation), ticsi (cram, crowd, jam, stuff, swarm), se îneca (drown, gag). (various references)

Russian 

удушение (asphyxia, asphyxiation, stranglehold, strangulation, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery), сердцевина артишока, ружье чокбор, воздушная заслонка, завязанный конец, задыхаться (asphyxiate, be out of breath, gasp, huff and puff, pant, suffocate, throttle), приглушать (downplay), припадок удушья, душить насос, душить (scent, smother, smothers, stifle, stifle joint, strangle, strangles, strangulate, suffocate, throttle), дроссельная катушка (choke-coil), дроссель (reactor, strangler, throttle). (various references)

Scottish

tachd (stop up. See <A HREF="mf12.html#tac">tac</A>, strangle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zagrcnuti, ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), saug, prigušivač (absorber, baffler, damper, muffler, silencer), čok (choke-bore). (various references)

Spanish

sofocar (asphyxiate, break, nearly die, put down, put out, quell, quench, smother, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, suppress, throttle), estrangular (strangle, strangulate, throttle), estárter (carburettor choke control). (various references)

Sranan

yokro (strangle). (various references)

Swedish

strypa (garrotte, scrag, strangle, strangulate, throttle), kvävas (stifle, suffocate), kväva (asphyxiate, damp, dampen, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Thai

สำลัก, ทำให้อุดตัน, ทำให้หายใจไม่ออก (stifle), อาการสำลัก. (various references)

Turkish

boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother, smother with, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm). (various references)

Turkmen 

hopukmak (be frightened, gasp). (various references)

Ukrainian

серцевина артишоку, ядуха (asphyxia, asthma, stifle, suffocation), щелепи, гасити (dowse, extinguish, null, out, quench, turn out), засмічувати (clog, foul, lumber, silt), заслінка (hatch), захаращувати (clutter, encumber, lumber, obstruct, overcharge), зав'язаний кінець, забивати (butcher, kill, knock in, ram, slaughter), задушення (strangle, strangulation, suffocation), задихатися (asphyxiate, gasp, pant, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), припадок ядухи, душитися, душити (asphyxiate, champ, smother, stifle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle), дросель (throttle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chỗ co lại, sự tắc lại sự làm ngột, sự làm kẹt, lõi rau atisô sự làm nghẹt, bướm gió. (various references)

Welsh

tagu (asphyxiate, stifle, strangle), llindagu (strangle, throttle). (various references)

strangalan. (various references)

angebat, astrangulare, offocaverunt, suffocabam, suffocabat, suffocans, suffocant, suffocantur, suffocati, suffocatis, suffocato, suffocatus, suffocaverunt, suffoco. (various references)

aceocian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "choke": chokeberries, chokeberry, chokecherries, chokecherry, choked, chokehold, chokeholds, choker, chokers, chokes, chokey. (additional references)

Words ending with "choke": artichoke, sunchoke, unchoke. (additional references)

Words containing "choke": artichokes, sunchokes, unchoked, unchokes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Choke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chace, chaka, chaouen, chiek, Chieke, chipko, chk, Chobe, choch, chocka, choco, choe, chok, Chokee, choken, chokka, Chokwe, chole, chome, chone, Chonku, chooe, chookie, chote, chove, chowk, chuie, clokke, Cnoke, cohue, coki, cokke, cole, cooke, croke, cshoe, hoke, schepke, Schmoke, Schokel, Schupke, shoke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coke, echo, heck, hock, hoke, okeh.

-2 letters: hoe, oke.

-3 letters: eh, he, ho, oe, oh.

+1 letter: choked, choker, chokes, chokey, hocked, hocker, hockey.

+2 letters: backhoe, chocked, chokers, chokier, hemlock, hockers, hockeys, hoecake, hoicked, hotcake, kerchoo, kolache, shocked, shocker, unchoke.

+3 letters: backhoes, chechako, checkoff, checkout, checkrow, chokiest, cokehead, havelock, havocked, havocker, headlock, hemlocks, hoecakes, homesick, hotcakes, shackoes, sherlock, shockers, shoepack, sunchoke, tuckahoe, unchoked, unchokes.

+4 letters: artichoke, backhouse, blockhead, bodycheck, chechakos, checkbook, checkoffs, checkouts, checkroom, checkrows, cheechako, cheekbone, chokehold, chuckhole, cockhorse, cockshies, cokeheads, cookhouse, deckhouse, doohickey, forecheck, foreshock, hackamore, havelocks, havockers, headlocks, headstock, hickories, horseback, hummocked, kalanchoe, packhorse, roughneck, schnorkel, sherlocks, shockable, shoeblack, shoepacks, shortcake, shylocked, sunchokes, tchotchke, tuckahoes, workbench.