1 ~ (on sth) to be unable to breathe because the passage to your lungs is blocked or you cannot get enough air; to make sb unable to breathe:
[V] He was choking on a piece of toast. * She almost choked to death in the thick fumes. * [VN] Very small toys can choke a baby.
2 [VN] to make sb stop breathing by squeezing their throat
SYNSTRANGLE:
He may have been choked or poisoned.
3 ~ (with sth) to be unable to speak normally especially because of strong emotion; to make sb feel too emotional to speak normally:
[V] His voice was choking with rage. * [VN] Despair choked her words. * 'I can't bear it,' he said in a choked voice.
seealsoCHOKED
4 [VN] ~ sth (up) (with sth) to block or fill a passage, space, etc. so that movement is difficult:
The pond was choked with rotten leaves. * The roads are choked up with traffic.
5 [V] (AmE, informal) to fail at sth, for example because you are nervous
PHRASALVERBS
choke sth<->back to try hard to prevent your feelings from showing:
to choke back tears / anger / sobs
choke sth<->down to swallow sth with difficulty
choke sth<->off
1 to prevent or limit sth:
High prices have choked off demand.
2 to interrupt sth; to stop sth:
Her screams were suddenly choked off.
choke out
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for choke is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is choke a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, choke is tagged as verb.
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