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The correct spelling is choke.
How to pronounce choke
noun
IPA: /t͡ʃəʊk/
Say it like: Cho-ke
The correct spelling is choke. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold. For example: "Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish."
Usage Examples
“Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.”
“The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.”
“to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- 2.In 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.The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
verb
- 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).
- 2.To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- 3.To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging 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).
- 5.To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
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