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- US Pronunciation
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- [chohk]
- /tʃoʊk/
- /tʃəʊk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [chohk]
- /tʃoʊk/
Definitions of choke word
- verb choke When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs. 3
- verb choke To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead. 3
- verb choke If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it. 3
- countable noun choke The choke in a car, truck, or other vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start. 3
- verb choke to hinder or stop the breathing of (a person or animal), esp by constricting the windpipe or by asphyxiation 3
- verb choke to have trouble or fail in breathing, swallowing, or speaking 3
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Origin of choke
First appearance:
before 1150 One of the 7% oldest English words
1150-1200; Middle English choken, cheken, variant of achoken, acheken, Old English ācēocian to suffocate; akin to Old Norse kōk gullet
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Parts of speech for Choke
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
choke popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
choke usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for choke
verb choke
- clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- congest — to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
- drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
noun choke
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- gulp — to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
Antonyms for choke
verb choke
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- release — to lease again.
- liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
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