choke
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(verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" |
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Related Words: breathe, respire, take a breath |
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(verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing |
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Related Words: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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(verb) reduce the air supply; of carburetors |
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Synonyms: throttle |
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Related Words: enrich |
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(verb) be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is chocking the cat" |
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Synonyms: fret, gag |
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Related Words: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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(verb) wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" |
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Synonyms: scrag |
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Related Words: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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(verb) check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger" |
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Related Words: bottle up, suppress |
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(noun) a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine |
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Related Words: automatic choke, valve |
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(noun) a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current |
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Synonyms: choke coil, choking coil |
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Related Words: coil |
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(verb) cause to retch or choke |
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Synonyms: gag |
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Related Words: sicken |
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(verb) struggle for breath |
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Synonyms: gag, suffocate |
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Related Words: hurt, suffer |
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(verb) kill by constricting the throat and preventing from breathing; "Othello suffocated Desdemona with a pillow" |
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Synonyms: suffocate |
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Related Words: decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass away, perish |
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(verb) die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket" |
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Synonyms: buy the farm, conk, croak, die suddenly, die unexpectedly, drop dead, kick the bucket, pop off, snuff it |
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Related Words: decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass away, perish |
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(verb) become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
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Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul |
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Related Words: block, block, choke up, close up, crap up, gum up, impede, jam, lug, obstruct, occlude, silt, silt up, stuff |
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