choke

Oznaczający (Angielski)

1. To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
2. To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
3. To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
4. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
5. (colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
7. To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
8. To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
9. To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
10. To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
11. To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
12. To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
13. To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
14. To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

strangle

suffocate

cash in one’s chips

give-up the ghost

ring down the curtain

choke coil

join the choir invisible

be strangled

be obstructed

cease to be

go to meet ones maker

obstruct air-passage

hollow throat

inductive choke

choked bore

choked neck

choke down

air-resistance

be suffocated

choke on food

force back

block up

underachieve

be blocked

necking down

sob convulsively

restricted gate

have trouble breathing

make cough

retardation coil

i hrottle

Częstotliwość

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/t͡ʃəʊk/

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

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