What is the meaning of choke?

noun

• A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
  • synonyms: choke coil, choking coil
• A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.

verb

• Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.
  • usage: "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
• Be too tight; rub or press.
  • usage: "This neckband is choking the cat"
  • synonyms: gag, fret
• Wring the neck of.
  • usage: "The man choked his opponent"
  • synonyms: scrag
• Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.
  • synonyms: strangle
• Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.
  • usage: "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
  • synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate
• Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation.
  • usage: "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
• Check or slow down the action or effect of.
  • usage: "She choked her anger"
• Become or cause to become obstructed.
  • usage: "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
  • synonyms: clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, foul
• Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
  • usage: "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
  • synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
• Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.
  • usage: "He is suffocating-living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
  • synonyms: suffocate
• Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.
  • usage: "His job suffocated him"
  • synonyms: suffocate
• Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, croak, snuff it
• Reduce the air supply.
  • usage: "choke a carburetor"
  • synonyms: throttle
• Cause to retch or choke.
  • synonyms: gag