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Chokes
/tʃəʊks/
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
📖 Definitions of "Chokes"
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A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
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In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
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A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
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A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
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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).
"Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish."
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To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
"The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me."
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To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
"to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud"
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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).
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Chokes"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| suffocateverb | (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. |
| gagnoun | A joke or other mischievous prank. |
| scragnoun | (UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class. |
| choke offverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something. |
| snuff itverb | (euphemistic, colloquial) to die. |
| croaknoun | The call of a frog or toad. |
| clog upverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To block something completely and physically. |
| foulnoun | (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. |
| drop deadverb | (intransitive) To die suddenly. |
| kick the bucketverb | (idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die. |
| buy the farmverb | (idiomatic, US, informal, euphemistic) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash. |
| fretverb | (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry. |
| pop offverb | (intransitive, informal) To leave and return in a short time. |
| back upverb | (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost. |
| clogverb | A blockage. |
| congestverb | (transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding. |
| throttlenoun | A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine. |
| choking coilnoun | An electric coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase. |
| conknoun | (colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down. |
| choke coilnoun | a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current |
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