What is the meaning of choked?

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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
    • usage: "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
  • 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"
  • 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"
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