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Definitions and meaning of choke

choke

Pronunciation

• enPR: chōk
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəʊk/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

Alternative forms

• choak (obsolete)
• choake (obsolete)
• chock (dialectal)

Verb

choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)

1. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
2. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

   Synonyms: asphyxiate, strangle, suffocate, throttle
3. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

   Synonyms: block up, bung up, clog, congest, jam, obstruct, stop up
4. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).

   Synonyms: choke out, stifle

   • 1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22,^[6]

     No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;

     But Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
7. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
8. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking

   Synonym: stick
9. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
10. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
    • 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435,^[14]

      Tajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?

11. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
12. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
13. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
14. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

Translations

Noun

choke (plural chokes)

1. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
4. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
5. (electronics) A choking coil.
6. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

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Etymology 2

Back-formation from artichoke.

Noun

choke (plural chokes)

1. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃok/

Verb

choke

1. inflection of choker:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English choke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃok/

Pronoun

choke

1. a lot, many

Middle English

Noun

choke

1. Alternative form of cheke