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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: choke up vb (tr, adverb)- to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- informal (usually passive) to overcome (a person) with emotion, esp without due cause
choke /tʃoʊk/USA pronunciation v., choked, chok•ing, n. v. - to stop the breath of (someone) by squeezing or blocking the windpipe;
strangle: [~ + object]Let go of my neck; you're choking me.[no object]He's choking; quick, get a doctor.[~ + on + object]The baby is choking on that hard candy! - [~ + object] to stop by filling;
obstruct;
clog: Grease choked the drain. - [~ + object] to fill to the limit;
pack: The closet was choked with toys. - to keep back, hold back, or suppress (a feeling, etc.): [~ + back/down + object]She choked back her sobs.[~ + object + back/down]to choke them down.
- Informal Terms to become too tense to perform well:[no object* ~ (+ up)]I don't know why I forgot my speech; I just choked (up) and couldn't go on.
- choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as if by choking: [~ + off + object]to choke off the fuel supply.[~ + object + off]to choke it off.
- choke up, to (cause to) become speechless, as from emotion: [no object]I just choked up and couldn't say a thing.[~ + object + up]This award chokes me up; I don't know what to say.
n. [countable] - the act or sound of choking.
- Mechanical Engineeringany mechanism that regulates the flow of elements by blocking a passage.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024choke (chōk),USA pronunciation v., choked, chok•ing, n. v.t. - to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe;
strangle;
stifle. - to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling:The sudden wind choked his words.
- to stop by filling;
obstruct;
clog:Grease choked the drain. - to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often fol. by back or down):I managed to choke back my tears.
- to fill chock-full:The storeroom was choked with furniture.
- to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
- Automotiveto enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
- Sportto grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle;
shorten one's grip on (often fol. by up).
v.i. - to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating:He choked on a piece of food.
- to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped:The words choked in her throat.
- choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking:to choke off a nation's fuel supply.
- choke up:
- to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress:She choked up over the sadness of the tale.
- to become too tense or nervous to perform well:Our team began to choke up in the last inning.
n. - the act or sound of choking.
- Automotivea mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
- Mechanical Engineering[Mach.]any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
- ElectricitySee choke coil.
- a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
- the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.
- 1150–1200; Middle English choken, cheken, variant of achoken, acheken, Old English ācēocian to suffocate; akin to Old Norse kōk gullet
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged block, dam, plug.
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