choke

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Editorial note

The same goes for the "loser / choke artist" family, I think.

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Quick take

a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of choke gathered in one view.

noun

a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

noun

a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

verb

breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for choke.

noun

a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

noun

a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

verb

breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"

verb

be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"

verb

wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"

verb

constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

verb

struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

verb

fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

verb

check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"

verb

become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

verb

impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

verb

become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

verb

suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"

verb

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "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"

See also: die, decease, perish, go, exit, expire, pass, conk

verb

reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"

verb

cause to retch or choke

Example sentences

The same goes for the "loser / choke artist" family, I think.

As someone who is dating a flight attendant, may I say: Please don't choke a flight attendant.

Identifying choke points for traffic led to a policy proposal.

That is precisely the libertarian politics that hangs around Bitcoin's neck, and if anything will choke it, this will be it.

One particularly common invasive species is Buckthorn that will choke out more desirable trees like Oaks which grow slowly.

Or do some crawlers choke on tables?I keep hearing this dogma, don't use tables for layout, but nobody has ever explained to me why it is a problem in practice.

I sense intuitively, though, that things like "15% across-the-board tax" are innately retrograde solutions that would serve to choke the beneficial and legal side of the service.

These "solutions" are really just a way of governmental regulators, should they adopt the, acting on behalf of some narrow lobbing interest or other to choke a service that benefits countless others.