DICTOMETER

CHOKE

(choke, estrangular, sofocar, kvele, kveles)

1. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   • Choke coil
   • Choking coil
   Definitions:
   • a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   Definitions:
   • a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   Definitions:
   • breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
   Examples:
   • She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   • Gag
   • Fret
   Definitions:
   • be too tight
   • rub or press
   Examples:
   • This neckband is choking the cat
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   • Scrag
   Definitions:
   • wring the neck of
   Examples:
   • The man choked his opponent
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   • Strangle
   Definitions:
   • constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Gag
   • Choke
   • Strangle
   • Suffocate
   Definitions:
   • struggle for breath
   • have insufficient oxygen intake
   Examples:
   • He swallowed a fishbone and gagged
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   Definitions:
   • fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
   Examples:
   • The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Choke
   Definitions:
   • check or slow down the action or effect of
   Examples:
   • She choked her anger
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Clog
   • Choke off
   • Clog up
   • Back up
   • Congest
   • Choke
   • Foul
   Definitions:
   • become or cause to become obstructed
   Examples:
   • The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
   • The water pipe is backed up
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Suffocate
   • Stifle
   • Asphyxiate
   • Choke
   Definitions:
   • impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
   Examples:
   • The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Suffocate
    • Choke
    Definitions:
    • become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
    Examples:
    • He is suffocating
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Suffocate
    • Choke
    Definitions:
    • suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
    Examples:
    • His job suffocated him
    
    
12. 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
    Definitions:
    • pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    Examples:
    • 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
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Choke
    • Throttle
    Definitions:
    • reduce the air supply
    Examples:
    • Choke a carburetor
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Gag
    • Choke
    Definitions:
    • cause to retch or choke