Synonym: muffle, smother, strangle, suffocate. Antonym: breathe. Similar words: poke, joke, broke, smoke, evoke, broker, stroke, broken. Meaning: [tʃəʊk] n. 1. a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current 2. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine. v. 1. breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion 2. be too tight; rub or press 3. wring the neck of 4. constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing 5. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake 6. fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation 7. check or slow down the action or effect of 8. become or cause to become obstructed 9. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of 10. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled 11. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of 12. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life 13. reduce the air supply 14. cause to retch or choke.
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61. Just that panicky fear, always on the verge of turning into hatred until we shamefacedly choke it back?
62. That would choke off exports and risk tipping the economy back into recession.
63. Remove the normal collar before fitting the choke chain, so that they can not become tangled together.
64. Prop his head up with a pillow so he doesn't choke on his own blood.
65. Beads can choke babies if swallowed[sentencedict.com/choke.html], and long strings of beads can also half-strangle older children.
66. The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers.
67. I think I am going to choke to death right here.
68. The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but cars still choke the streets in the rush hour.
69. She retched and failed, squeezed, tried again, tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her.
70. If the wealthy live outside the city and poor people live inside it, Miller warns, Tucson will choke economically.
71. Then he let down bundles of lighted straw to kill them or choke them into surrender.
72. They began choke up in the last innings.
73. We would never choke down the insult.
74. The smorgasbord promises to choke an already overloaded network.
75. A power choke or transformer has an iron core.
76. I managed to choke back my tears.
77. He would never choke down the insult.
78. Smoothing choke coil can be downsized.
79. She found it hard to choke down her anger.
80. A courtroom lawyer must never choke up under pressure.
81. Sediment begins to choke the channel's opening.
82. When presented with more options, though, we choke up.
83. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
84. Then we found out that if every living soul on the planet had a fridge and a house and an S.U.V., we would choke on our own exhaust.
85. But what was preferred was a verjuice which was made from crab apples or choke apples of the record which are all wild apples.
86. Children under eight years can choke or suffocate on uninflected or broken balloons. Adult supervision required. Keep uninflected balloons from children. Discard broken balloons at once.
87. Alcohol poisoning impairs a person's gag reflex and they could choke on their own vomit or inhale vomit into their lungs.
88. However, a full 20 % increase will likely choke off the fragile Chinese economic recovery.
89. To appearing " old ox chokes with resentment greatly " person, avoid by all means covers shut up bazoo, inflectional limb, lest choke.
90. Some people want to choke off the very thing that makes us strong and unique.