choke
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Substantiivi
choke englanniksi
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
(ux)
{{quote-text|en|year=1919|author=Zane Grey|title=The Desert of Wheat|url=https://archive.org/details/desertwheat00greyrich|chapter=6|page=66|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|location=New York
To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2)
(RQ:KJV)
{{quote-book|en|year=1918|author=Willa Cather|title=My Ántonia|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|chapter=15|pages=282–283|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19810/19810-h/19810-h.html
To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
(quote-journal)|number=120|title=The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.|location=London|year_published=1712|volume=3|page=31|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.003
{{quote-text|en|year=1961|author=V. S. Naipaul|title=A House for Mr Biswas|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1992|section=Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492|url=https://archive.org/details/houseformrbiswas00vsna_1
(quote-journal)
{{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Tan Twan Eng|title=The Garden of Evening Mists|location=New York|publisher=Weinstein Books|chapter=13|page=168|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=42flW_uytFQC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
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).
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
1697, (w) (translator), “The Fifth (w),” lines(nbs)55-56, in ''The Works of (w),'' London: Jacob Tonson, p.(nbs)22,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65112.0001.001
- No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;
- But Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn.
{{quote-text|en|year=1998|author=Nuruddin Farah|title=Secrets|url=https://archive.org/details/secrets00nuru|chapter=3|page=67|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1999
To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
(quote-text)
(quote-journal) Stunned by (w) at (w)|journal=The New York Times|date=22 January 2019|titleurl=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/22/sports/tennis/ap-ten-australian-open.html
To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
{{quote-book|en|year=1973|author=Wayne Otto; et al|title=Corrective and Remedial Teaching|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|edition=2nd|chapter=13|page=361|url=https://archive.org/details/correctiveremedi00otto
To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
{{quote-text|en|year=2014|author=Roger Fredericks|title=The Flexible Golf Swing|page=108
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe) the words choked in his throat.
{{quote-text|en|year=1929|author=Thomas Wolfe|title=Look Homeward, Angel|location=New York|publisher=Modern Library|section=Part 3, Chapter 29, p. 413|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.475765
{{quote-book|en|year=1684|author=Aphra Behn|title=Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister|location=London|chapter=The Amours of Philander and Silvia|page=277|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27301.0001.001
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) tears choked the utterance of the dame de compagnie, and she buried her crushed affections and her poor old red nose in her pocket handkerchief.
(RQ:Wells Island of Doctor Moreau)
{{quote-text|en|year=1905|author=William John Locke|title=The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5051/5051-h/5051-h.htm|chapter=20
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=1982|chapter=18|page=282|url=https://archive.org/details/chosen00poto_1
To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
{{quote-text|en|year=1894|author=Israel Zangwill|title=The King of Schnorrers|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013577642|chapter=2|page=48|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York
2007, (w), ''(w),'' New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p.(nbs)435,https://books.google.ca/books?id=k5snFSTVhOsC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
- Tajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?
To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
{{quote-book|en|year=1712|author=Jonathan Swift|chapter=An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity|title=The Works of J.S.|location=Dublin|publisher=George Faulkner|year_published=1735|volume=1|page=104|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100026160
{{quote-book|en|year=1773|author=Oliver Goldsmith|title=She Stoops to Conquer|location=London|publisher=F. Newbery|section=act IV|page=80|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792762.0001.000
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield) and laid my face in my hands upon the table.
{{quote-text|en|year=1971|author=Iris Murdoch|title=An Accidental Man|url=https://archive.org/details/accidentalman00murd|page=42|publisher=Viking|location=New York
To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
(quote-text)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35555/35555-h/35555-h.htm|chapter=6
{{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=Rohinton Mistry|title=A Fine Balance|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year_published=1997|section=Epilogue, p. 583|url=https://archive.org/details/finebalance00rohi
To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215897|chapter=26|page=492|publisher=Viking|year_published=1962|location=New York
To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
A coil.
A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
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