The meaning of CHOKE is to check or block normal breathing of by compressing or obstructing the trachea or by poisoning or adulterating available air. How to use choke in a sentence.

CHOKE definition: 1. If you choke, or if something chokes you, you stop breathing because something is blocking your…. Learn more.

CHOKE meaning: 1 : to become unable to breathe usually because something gets stuck in your throat or because the air is not good for breathing; 2 : to cause (someone) to stop breathing by squeezing the throat

To fail to perform effectively because of nervous agitation or tension, especially in an athletic contest: choked by missing an easy putt on the final hole. n. 1. The act or sound of choking. 2. a. Something that constricts or chokes. b. A slight narrowing of the barrel of a shotgun serving to concentrate the shot. 3.

A choke is a coil of low resistance and high inductance that is used in electrical circuits to pass low frequency or direct currents while stopping the higher frequency alternating currents.

Definition of choke verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to be unable to breathe because the passage to your lungs is blocked or you cannot get enough air; to make somebody unable to breathe. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes. choke on something He was choking on a piece of toast.

When you choke, you are suddenly unable to breathe, often because something is stuck in your throat. Your dad's rude joke might make you gasp and choke on your grilled cheese sandwich.

to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle. The sudden wind choked his words. Grease choked the drain. I managed to choke back my tears. The …

To block up; obstruct by clogging. To hinder the growth or action of; smother; suppress. To become strained with emotion. A choked voice. The act of choking; strangulation. A sound of …

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.