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1. Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
   "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
    
2. Be too tight; rub or press
   "This neckband is choking the cat"
   - gag, fret
    
3. Wring the neck of
   "The man choked his opponent"
   - scrag [N. Amer]
    
4. Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
   - strangle
    
5. Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
   - gag, strangle, suffocate
    
6. Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
   "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
    
7. Check or slow down the action or effect of
   "She choked her anger"
    
8. Become or cause to become obstructed
   - clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, foul
    
9. Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
   - suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
    
10. Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
    - suffocate
     
11. Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
    - suffocate
     
12. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    - die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm [N. Amer], conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, croak, snuff it, pop one's clogs
     
13. Reduce the air supply
    "choke a carburettor"
    - throttle
     
14. Cause to retch or choke
    - gag

1. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
   - choke coil, choking coil
    
2. A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburettor of a petrol engine

Derived forms: chokes, choking, choked

See also: choker, choking

Type of: become, block, bottle up, breathe, change state, close up, coil, compact, compress, constrict, contract, dampen, enrich, fail, hurt, impede, inhibit, jam, neglect, obstruct, obturate, occlude, press, respire, sicken, squeeze, stifle, suffer, suppress, suspire, take a breath, turn, valve

Part of: circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit, fuel system

Encyclopedia: Choke