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choke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | choke coil, choking coil |
| Type of | coil |
choke::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| Type of | change state, turn |
| Has types | famish, drown, pip out, predecease, yield, starve, stifle, buy it, succumb, suffocate, asphyxiate, abort, fall |
| Verb group | conk out, go bad, go, break down, give out, break, die, fail, give way |
choke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | valve |
| Has types | automatic choke |
choke::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | suspire, respire, take a breath, breathe |
| Derivation | choking |
She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband.
Examples of choke
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We have got to build new railways some time or the existing one will just choke.
From the guardian.co.uk
Something in my mind wants me to take Weiretunge by the throat and choke to him.
From the theatlantic.com
She poured a shot, with a chaser, but neither Mahoney nor I could choke it down.
From the stltoday.com
Scott Jorgensen defeated Frank Gomez with a guillotine choke in the first round.
From the usatoday.com
Time to watch the Red Wings choke the life out of this game the rest of the way.
From the post-gazette.com
Van Marwijk is striving to brush aside the tendency to choke in the late stages.
From the bostonherald.com
The residents tried to choke each other before one threw the other to the floor.
From the abcnews.go.com
Some students walked miles to avoid the security checkpoints that choke traffic.
From the nytimes.com
Just last night I had laid down to rest some and woke up ready to choke someone.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
- A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
- A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
- Wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
- Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- Choke (released October 1990) is The Beautiful South's second album. It was pushed to number 2 in the charts after the release of the South's first and only number 1 single "A Little Time".
- Choke was a Canadian Punk rock band.
- The following is an episode list for the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-head. The series has its roots in 1992 when Mike Judge created two animated shorts - "Frog Baseball" and "Peace, Love & Understanding" - which were later aired on Liquid Television.
