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Word: choke
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- sports: In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
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Verb:
- intransitive: To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way
- intransitive: To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- transitive: Of a cave passage, to be partly or completely blocked by boulders, mud etc.
- transitive: To prevent someone from breathing by strangling them.
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