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Chock vs Suffocate - What's the difference?

chock | suffocate |

In lang=en terms the difference between chock and suffocate

is that chock is to fill up, as a cavity while suffocate is to destroy; to extinguish.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between chock and suffocate

is that chock is (obsolete) to encounter while suffocate is (obsolete) suffocated; choked.

As verbs the difference between chock and suffocate

is that chock is to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch or chock can be (obsolete) to encounter or chock can be to make a dull sound while suffocate is (ergative) to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

As a noun chock

is any wooden block used as a wedge or filler or chock can be (obsolete) an encounter.

As an adverb chock

is (nautical) entirely; quite.

As an adjective suffocate is

(obsolete) suffocated; choked.

chock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
  • (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
  • Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
  • * 2000 , Lindbergh: A Biography , by Leonard Mosley, page 82
    • On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, signaled chocks -away to those on the ground below him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  • To fill up, as a cavity.
  • * Fuller
    • The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
  • (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
    • Derived terms
    * chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchock

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical) Entirely; quite.
    • chock''' home; '''chock aft

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An encounter.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a dull sound.
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
    • She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
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    suffocate

    English

    Verb

    (suffocat)
  • (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
    • Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
  • (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
    • He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate .
  • (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
    • I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
  • To destroy; to extinguish.
    • to suffocate fire

    Synonyms

    * (To suffer from reduced oxygen) asphyxiate * (To die from insufficient oxygen) stifle * (To be overwhelmed) drown * (To reduce oxygen supply) asphyxiate, smother * (To kill by deprivation of oxygen) asphyxiate, stifle * (To make weary with contact) smother

    Derived terms

    * suffocation

    Related terms

    * asphyxia

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Suffocated; choked.
    • (Shakespeare)

    External links

    * * * English ergative verbs ----