chokeverb詞源 1/t͡ʃəʊk/

• 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).

  • Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
  • Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.
• 2

  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.
  • With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
• 3

  To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

  • to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
  • This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through 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).

  • Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
  • And some [seeds] fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
• 5

  To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.

  • He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.
  • “I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”
• 6

  To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

  • A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.
• 7

  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.

  • Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.
• 8

  To be checked or stopped, as if by choking

  • […] the words choked in his throat.
  • Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.

chokenoun詞源 1/t͡ʃəʊk/

• 1

  A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

  • Bond leapt for the Bentley, blessing the impulse which had made him drive it over after dinner. With the choke full out, the engine answered at once to the starter and the roar drowned the faltering words of the commissionaire who jumped aside as the rear wheels whipped gravel at his piped trouser-legs.
• 2

  hobbieslifestylesportsIn wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.

• 3

  A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.

• 4

  A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.

• 5

  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA choking coil.

• 6

  A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

chokenoun詞源 2/t͡ʃəʊk/

• 1

  The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

  • Once all the leaves are gone, a hairy little island will remain in the middle of the artichoke. This is the “choke.” A gentleman uses his knife and fork to slice it away, uncovering the delicious artichoke “heart” underneath.