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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91. Install multiple intrusion - detection systems and multiple routers for incoming traffic to reduce choke points.
92. Sediments choke some stretches of the Yellow, hindering its ability to flush out pollutants.
93. If those banks fail, it could choke off credit for smaller companies.
94. Using Frames, JavaScript,[http://sentencedict.com/choke.html] and other technology that a page reader can't read also creates content a spider can't read (or will choke on).
95. Tolerance design affects functional roles and manufacturing costs of products. It has been become a key technique and choke point of information integration in CAD/CAM.
96. In old - school training stimulus control with a choke collar or prong collar.
97. The purpose of the electric heating element in the choke is to assure slower choke opening.
98. As at Trappers Point so here at the Funnel; incremental human activities are accumulating toward a crisis for Grand Teton's pronghorn—threatening to choke off their passageway.
99. So, uh...Sarah, could you show me that super-cool secret agent choke hold again?
100. Zhang Jingru has been in the top corner Molugetao but to choke back standing there.
101. In the study of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), knowledge base system is viewed as a choke point that restricts its effectiveness and practicality.
102. All the paients rehabilitated deglutition in 10 to 14 days after operation. None presented complication of choke.
103. Cause nose lung to reflex syndrome, occurrence bazoo pharynx jams, choke with resentment not the expression of easy.
104. The automatic choke includes a thermostatic spring and a vacuum piston.
105. Jasmin Sultana, 24, of Queens, N.Y., knows only too well what it means to choke under pressure.
106. Applying the balance circuit and cutting the ground loop can choke the former one that mainly caused by ground loop.
107. To cause to choke, retch, or undergo a regurgitative spasm.
108. Our team began to choke up in the last innings.
109. This paper illustrates the working principle, working characteristic and technical requirement of carburettor automatic choke on JY55T motorcycle.
110. Kempton made an inarticulate noise at the back of his throat as if he were about to choke.
111. The girl talked endlessly and her mother had to choke her off.
112. I'd catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea. ".
113. Meanwhile the electrical heating actuator and vacuum actuator for automatic choke, as well as the auxiliaries, such as fast idling and throttle stopper are described in detail.
114. Unfortunately, the placement of our voice box means we can't breathe and swallow at the same time, as other animals can (choke).
115. Investors also worry about the danger of a 'double dip' European recession if governments get the timing and pace of budget consolidation wrong and choke off the recovery.
116. How could he choke back his indignation at the slanderous charges his opponent levelled against him?
117. Carburetors for automobile engines usually contained a storage chamber for liquid fuel, a choke, an idling jet, a main jet, an airflow restriction, and an accelerator pump.
118. It also means that local party officials can effectively choke off information to Beijing, blinding the central authorities as to exactly how their mandates are carried out.
119. And the plan is to put the rap game in a choke hold .
120. The dual winding type common mode choke coil structure enables noise suppression without degrading the signal.