A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.

synonyms: choke coil, choking coil.

A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.

Dutch: choke

Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.

Be too tight; rub or press.

synonyms: fret, gag.

Wring the neck of:
— The man choked his opponent.

synonym: scrag.

Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.

synonym: strangle.

Dutch: wurgen, verstikken

Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.

synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate.

Roget 641: superabound, overabound^†; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark etc. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize^†.    choke, cloy, accloy^†, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish etc. (squander) 818.    send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens^†; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere [Lat.]; kill the slain, gild refined gold," gild the lily," butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut etc. (waste) 638.    exaggerate etc. 549; wallow in roll in etc. (plenty) 639; remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.    ... show more

Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation.

Check or slow down the action or effect of.

Become or cause to become obstructed.

synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul.

Roget 706: hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite^†, embarrass.    keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert^†; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck^†; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop [Law]; inhibit etc. 761; shackle etc. (restrain) 751; restrict.    obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay^†; dam up etc. (close) 261; put on the brake etc. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to etc. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose etc. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude^†.    interpose, interfere, intermeddle etc. 682.    cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.    run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.    thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze^†, feeze [U.S.]; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat etc. 731; spike guns etc. (render useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple etc. (injure) 659; put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten etc. (dissuade) 616; discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.    ... show more

Dutch: ophopen

Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.

synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate.

Roget 361: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.    strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.    saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate^†; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.    shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate^†; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.    behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas etc. (execute) 972.    hunt, shoot etc. n.. cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.    give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.    die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.    ... show more

Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.

synonym: suffocate.

Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.

synonym: suffocate.

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.

synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it ... show more.

Dutch: de pijp aan Maarten geven, vergaan, omkomen, creperen, doodgaan, expireren, heengaan, inslapen, insluimeren, kapotgaan, ontslapen, overlijden, peigeren, sterven, verrekken, verscheiden, versmachten ... show more

Reduce the air supply:
— Choke a carburetor.

synonym: throttle.

Roget 261: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct etc. (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.    ... show more

Cause to retch or choke.

synonym: gag.