| 单词 | choke |
| 释义 | verb | noun chokechoke1 /tʃoʊk/ ●●○ S3 verb 1STOP BREATHING [intransitive, transitive] if something chokes you, or if you choke, you cannot breathe because something is blocking your throat or because there is not enough air: Help him! He’s choking! The smoke was choking me.choke on something He choked on a piece of chicken.choke to death (=die by choking on something)2HOLD somebody'S THROAT [transitive] to prevent someone from breathing by putting your hands around his or her throat and pressing on it: Don’t hold so tight! You’re choking me. The medical examiner concluded Perez had been choked to death.3VOICE [intransitive, transitive] if you choke with emotion, or if your voice chokes, you are so strongly affected by your feelings that you find it difficult to speak: be choked with anger/emotion/grief etc. Deaton, choked with fury, banged the table.4BLOCK [transitive] to fill an area or passage so that it is difficult to move through it: Weeds were choking the stream.be choked with something The roads were choked with traffic.5FAIL [intransitive] informal to fail at doing something, especially a sport, because there is a lot of pressure on you: I choked and missed an easy shot.6PLANTS [transitive] (also choke out) to kill a plant by surrounding it with other plants that take away its light and room to grow: Growth of the reed can choke out native water plants.7SAY something [transitive] (also choke out) to say something with difficulty because you are very upset or angry: He began to sob, and choked out, “I have to go now.”8enough something to choke a horse spoken if you have enough of something to choke a horse, you have a lot of it: I have enough kitchen gadgets to choke a horse.[Origin: 1300–1400 achoke to choke (11–14 centuries), from Old English aceocian]choke something ↔ back phrasal verb to control your anger, sadness, etc. so that you do not show it SYN hold back: Kennedy paused, choking back tears.choke something ↔ down phrasal verb1to eat something quickly or with difficulty, especially because it tastes bad or because you are sick or in a hurry: I was barely able to choke down her tuna casserole.2to control your anger, sadness, etc. so that you do not show it SYN hold back: Margaret put her napkin to her mouth to choke down a sob.choke off something phrasal verb to prevent someone from doing something or stop something from happening SYN cut off: an attempt to choke off the supply of cocaine to the U.S.choke up phrasal verb be/get choked up to feel like you are going to cry because you are upset about something: I choke up every time I hear that song. verb | noun chokechoke2 noun 1[countable] a piece of equipment in a vehicle that controls the amount of air going into the engine, and that is used to help the engine start2[uncountable] the controlling of the amount of air going into an engine by using this piece of equipment: Give it a bit more choke.3[countable] the act or sound of choking |
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