verb
- Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.
- usage: "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
- synonyms: choke
- Be too tight; rub or press.
- usage: "This neckband is choking the cat"
- Wring the neck of.
- usage: "The man choked his opponent"
- Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.
- Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.
- usage: "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- 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"
- synonyms: choke
- Check or slow down the action or effect of.
- usage: "She choked her anger"
- synonyms: choke
- Become or cause to become obstructed.
- usage: "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
- Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
- usage: "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- synonyms: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke
- Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.
- usage: "He is suffocating-living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.
- usage: "His job suffocated him"
- 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, choke, croak, snuff it
- Reduce the air supply.
- usage: "choke a carburetor"
- Cause to retch or choke.
adjective
- Stopped up; clogged up.
- usage: "clogged pipes"; "clogged up freeways"; "streets choked with traffic"
- synonyms: clogged
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