choke

Speech parts

1. choke - Noun

2. choke - Verb

Meaning

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

The tied end of a cartridge.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

burke cork bung hawking sardine caulk gas suffocate pant chock pass block die exit dam
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Antonyms

kindle bellow ream free available open
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Hypernyms

become turn press contract block compact

Hyponyms

fall suffocate block yield stuff silt

Phrases with the word

choke up choke on choke with common-mode choke coil choke to death choke-me

Derivatives

choked choking

Examples

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Close letter words and terms

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