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choke

Definition

  • verb: to become unable to breathe usually because something gets stuck in your throat or because the air is not good for breathing
  • verb: to check or block normal breathing of by compressing or obstructing the trachea or by poisoning or adulterating available air
  • often + 'out'
  • synonyms: stifle, stick, repress

Examples

  • A growth on the artery wall is 'choking off' the blood supply.

  • He was 'choking back tears' as he talked about his late wife.

  • She 'choked' to death. = She died by 'choking'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Let's unload the rest of this, get it up top. Now, what are you waitin' for? Shut up. All right, Ellis. Can you climb that trunk, -choke this off that limb? - Yeah. Tie it in a bowline knot, you know it? I'm not stupid. Neck, I need you to start cuttin' line in two-foot pieces. (..)
    2012 Mud