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English noun: choke | |||
| 1. | choke (artifact) a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current | ||
| Synonyms | choke coil, choking coil | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | coil | ||
| Part meronym | circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | ||
| 2. | choke (artifact) a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | valve | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | automatic choke | ||
| Part meronym | fuel system | ||
English verb: choke | |||
| 1. | choke (body) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | ||
| Samples | She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath | ||
| 2. | choke (contact) be too tight; rub or press | ||
| Samples | This neckband is choking the cat. | ||
| Synonyms | fret, gag | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | ||
| 3. | choke (contact) wring the neck of | ||
| Samples | The man choked his opponent. | ||
| Synonyms | scrag | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | ||
| 4. | choke (body) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | ||
| Synonyms | strangle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | ||
| Cause | choke | ||
| 5. | choke (body) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | ||
| Samples | He swallowed a fishbone and gagged. | ||
| Synonyms | gag, strangle, suffocate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s on something. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hurt, suffer | ||
| 6. | choke (social) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | ||
| Samples | The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fail, neglect | ||
| 7. | choke (social) check or slow down the action or effect of | ||
| Samples | She choked her anger. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bottle up, inhibit, suppress | ||
| 8. | choke (contact) become or cause to become obstructed | ||
| Samples | The leaves clog our drains in the Fall. The water pipe is backed up. | ||
| Synonyms | back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | block, choke up, crap up, gum up, lug, silt, silt up, stuff | ||
| Antonyms | unclog | ||
| 9. | choke (contact) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | ||
| Samples | The foul air was slowly suffocating the children. | ||
| Synonyms | asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude | ||
| 10. | choke (change) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | ||
| Samples | He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village. | ||
| Synonyms | suffocate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | become, turn | ||
| Verb group | choke, suffocate | ||
| 11. | choke (change) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | ||
| Samples | His job suffocated him. | ||
| Synonyms | suffocate | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dampen, stifle | ||
| Verb group | choke, suffocate | ||
| 12. | choke (change) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change state, turn | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abort, asphyxiate, buy it, drown, fall, famish, pip out, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield | ||
| Verb group | break, break down, conk out, die, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | ||
| Antonyms | be born | ||
| 13. | choke (change) reduce the air supply | ||
| Samples | Choke a carburetor. | ||
| Synonyms | throttle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enrich | ||
| 14. | choke (body) cause to retch or choke | ||
| Synonyms | gag | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sicken | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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