Choke meanings. All definitions of Choke

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

verb choke to block or clog up (a passage, pipe, street, etc) 3

verb choke to retard the growth or action of 3

verb choke to suppress (emotion) 3

verb choke to die 3

verb choke to enrich the petrol-air mixture by reducing the air supply to (a carburettor, petrol engine, etc) 3

verb choke (esp in sport) to be seized with tension and fail to perform well 3

noun choke the act or sound of choking 3

noun choke a device in the carburettor of a petrol engine that enriches the petrol-air mixture by reducing the air supply 3

noun choke any constriction or mechanism for reducing the flow of a fluid in a pipe, tube, etc 3

noun choke an inductor having a relatively high impedance, used to prevent the passage of high frequencies or to smooth the output of a rectifier 3

noun choke the inedible centre of the head of an artichoke 3

verb transitive choke to prevent from breathing by blocking the windpipe or squeezing the throat of; strangle; suffocate; smother; stifle 3

verb transitive choke to block up; obstruct by clogging 3

verb transitive choke to hinder the growth or action of; smother; suppress 3

verb transitive choke to fill up 3

verb transitive choke to cut off some air from the carburetor of (a gasoline engine) in order to make a richer gasoline mixture 3

verb transitive choke to hold (a bat, golf club, etc.) away from the end of the handle and closer toward the middle 3

intransitive verb choke to be suffocated; have difficulty in breathing 3

intransitive verb choke to be blocked up; be obstructed 3

intransitive verb choke to become strained with emotion 3

intransitive verb choke to be unable to perform efficiently, as in a sporting event, because of tension, strong emotion, etc. 3

noun choke the act of choking; strangulation 3

noun choke a sound of choking 3

noun choke the valve that chokes a carburetor 3

noun choke a constriction, as in a chokebore 3

noun choke The choke in a vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start the engine or run it in cold weather. 3

noun choke A choke is a device for reducing the flow of a fluid in a pipe or tube. 3

noun choke A choke is a device which controls the flow rate of a fluid in a pipe. 3

noun choke A choke is a coil of low resistance and high inductance that is used in electrical circuits to pass low frequency or direct currents while stopping the higher frequency alternating currents. 3

noun choke (of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air. 1

noun Technical meaning of choke (jargon) To fail to process input or, more generally, to fail at any endeavor. E.g. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." See barf, gag. 1

intransitive verb choke have airway blocked 1

intransitive verb choke have airway blocked by food 1

transitive verb choke constrict sb's breath 1

transitive verb choke stop flow 1

noun choke carburettor air control 1

intransitive verb choke fail to act 1

transitive verb choke enrich fuel mixture 1

transitive verb choke sports: grip higher up 1

transitive verb choke stop growth or movement 1

verb with object choke to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle. 1

verb with object choke to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words. 1

verb with object choke to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain. 1

verb with object choke to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down): I managed to choke back my tears. 1

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