choke down
噎住了,噎死了,噎死,噎住
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choked, chok·ing.
- : to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- : to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words.
- : to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain.
- : to suppress: I managed to choke back my tears.
- : to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture.
- : to seize with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
- : to enrich the fuel mixture of by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
- : Sports. to grip farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on.
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choked, chok·ing.
- : to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food.
- : to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat.
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- : the act or sound of choking.
- : a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
- : Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
- : Electricity. choke coil.
- : a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
- : the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.
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- : choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply.
- : choke up, to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: She choked up over the sadness of the tale.to become too tense or nervous to perform well: Our team began to choke up in the last inning.
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You could also seek out countries with internet choke points that slow or make Wi-Fi use pointless and frustrating.
Instead, the growing costs of sustaining Moore’s Law have encouraged consolidation among chipmakers and created more choke points in the immensely complex business of chip production.
Of all the choke points, it was my least favorite to pass through, and when I did so as a ship captain I was up and awake all night.
The family was told her handcuffed son reached for an officer’s gun, prompting them to put him in a choke hold–a maneuver Minneapolis police finally banned last June.
Gently twist and pull away the petals at the very center until the furry choke is revealed.
He then began to choke her, and as she lost consciousness it must have seemed that his might be the last face she would ever see.
According to their friend, producer/filmmaker Choke No Joke, it was over a mutual flame.
Shiomura continued to speak even though she had to choke back tears at one point.
A new Kimberley Process working group to monitor CAR might help focus attention on the guilty and choke the diamond flow.
But for a movie that choke-holds you in suspense from the very first scene, Cold in July is also surprisingly funny.
It's good for nothing but to choke a man and fill him full of smoke and embers.
He felt that to eat would choke him, but forced himself to take a sip of coffee and a bit of corn bread.
There was another choke in her voice as she smoothed Judy's old brown dress, and brushed a bit of bran from her face.
The spoondrift began to fly so that you could not see the moon, and the wind was enough to choke you if you faced it.
Hester fiercely bit her lip and gulped down the tears that threatened to choke her.