transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃoʊk ]
( chokes, choking, choked)
1.
When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
The coffee was almost too hot to swallow and made him choke for a moment...
A small child could choke on the doll’s hair...
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her...
The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke...
Within minutes the hall was full of choking smoke.
VERB : V , V on n , V n , V to n , V-ing
2.
To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead.
The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie.
= strangle
VERB : V n
3.
If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it.
The village’s roads are choked with traffic...
His pond has been choked by the fast-growing weed.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed with n , be V-ed by n
4.
The choke in a car, truck, or other vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start.
N-COUNT : usu sing , usu the N