Choked vs Choker - What's the difference?
choked | choker |
(choke)
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
* Shakespeare
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
* Dryden
(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
* Sir Walter Scott
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
* Jonathan Swift
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
(senseid)A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.
* 2010 , Alice Fisher, The Observer , 24 Oct 2010:
One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
(slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
One who performs badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when winning.
As a verb choked
is past tense of choke.As a noun choker is
(jewelry or accessory)A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.choked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*choke
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
(chok)- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
- (Addison)
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
- The words choked in his throat.
- I was choked at this word.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* choker * choke collar * unchokeSee also
* strangle English ergative verbschoker
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Noun
(en noun)- She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.
- I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!
