Meaning : 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
Meaning : A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.
Meaning : Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.
Example :
She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband.
Meaning : Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.
Synonyms : strangle
Meaning : Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation.
Example :
The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience.
Meaning : Check or slow down the action or effect of.
Example :
She choked her anger.
Meaning : Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.
Example :
The foul air was slowly suffocating the children.
Synonyms : asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate
Meaning : Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.
Example :
He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village.
Synonyms : suffocate
Meaning : Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.
Example :
His job suffocated him.
Synonyms : suffocate
Meaning : Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
Example :
She died from cancer.
The children perished in the fire.
The patient went peacefully.
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102.
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
Meaning : Cause to retch or choke.
Synonyms : gag