"choke" meaning in English

See choke in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃəʊk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /t͡ʃoʊk/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-choke.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chokes [plural]
enPR: chōk [General-American] Rhymes: -əʊk Etymology: From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|choken}} Middle English choken, {{m|enm|cheken}} cheken, {{m|en|acheken}} acheken, {{inh|en|ang|āċēocian||to choke}} Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), {{inh|en|ang|ċēoce}} Old English ċēoce, {{m|ang|ċēace||jaw, cheek}} ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), {{l|en|cheek}} cheek, {{cog|is|kok||throat}} Icelandic kok (“throat”), {{m|is|koka||to gulp}} koka (“to gulp”), {{l|en|achoke}} achoke Head templates: {{en-noun}} choke (plural chokes)
  1. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold. Categories (topical): Auto parts, Automotive Translations (control on a carburetor): verstik (Afrikaans), asfiksim (Albanian), смукач (smukač) [masculine] (Bulgarian), sytič (Czech), choker [common-gender] (Danish), choke [masculine] (Dutch), stringovalvo (Esperanto), rikastin (Finnish), ryyppy (Finnish), starter [masculine] (French), Choke [masculine] (German), Drossel [feminine] (German), τσοκ (tsok) [neuter] (Greek), εμφράκτης (emfráktis) [masculine] (Greek), tachtaire [masculine] (Irish), tachtóir [masculine] (Irish), starter [masculine] (Italian), チョーク弁 (chōkuben) (alt: チョークべん) (Japanese), ឆូក (cʰook) (Khmer), សន្ទះខ្យល់ (sɑnteah kcɑl) (Khmer), ការថប់ (kaa tʰɑp) (Khmer), ការទប់ (kaa tup) (Khmer), 초크 (chokeu) (Korean), саух (sauh) [masculine] (Macedonian), choke [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ssanie [neuter] (Polish), afogador [masculine] (Portuguese), șoc [neuter] (Romanian), засло́нка (zaslónka) [feminine] (Russian), estrangulador [masculine] (Spanish), choke (Swedish), โช้ค (chóok) (Thai), jikle (Turkish), tagu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-JDoxpx0S Disambiguation of Auto parts: 9 4 3 6 6 4 5 9 3 5 4 4 4 7 3 2 3 3 4 5 6 3 Disambiguation of Automotive: 11 4 4 5 6 5 5 8 4 6 4 4 7 6 5 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 Disambiguation of 'control on a carburetor': 89 1 2 2 4 2
  2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation. Categories (topical): Sports Translations (type of hold in wrestling etc.): wurggreep (Afrikaans), valvul ajri (Albanian), kvælertag (Danish), macht (Dutch), kuristusote (Finnish), mainmise (French), Würgegriff (German), tachtadh [masculine] (Irish), 목조 르기 (mokjo reugi) (Korean), kvelertak [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), uścisk [masculine] (Polish), mata-leão [masculine] (Portuguese), škrtenie [neuter] (Slovak), estrangulamiento [masculine] (Spanish), järngrepp (Swedish), bastırma (Turkish), sự nắm cổ người nào (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-C6BjSYDF Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'type of hold in wrestling etc.': 3 69 4 8 8 7
  3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot. Translations (constriction at a shotgun barrel): mbytje (Albanian), snížené (Czech), reduceret (Danish), supistin (Finnish), réduit (French), reducido [masculine] (Galician), Würgebohrung [feminine] (German), τσοκ (tsok) [neuter] (Greek), redusert (Norwegian), smanjen (Serbo-Croatian), zníženej (Slovak), minskas (Swedish), indirimli (Turkish), giảm (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-G5~EnJj3 Disambiguation of 'constriction at a shotgun barrel': 2 5 74 4 10 5
  4. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage. Translations (blockage in cave passage): tukos (Finnish), Versturz [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-1VM8QlXa Disambiguation of 'blockage in cave passage': 2 11 4 67 10 6
  5. (electronics) A choking coil. Categories (topical): Electronics Translations (choking coil): Drosselspule [feminine] (German), Drossel [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-h9OZAVZA Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'choking coil': 1 1 1 1 94 2
  6. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-n25laO9c
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: choak [obsolete], choake [obsolete], chock [dialectal]

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃəʊk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /t͡ʃoʊk/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-choke.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chokes [plural]
enPR: chōk [General-American] Rhymes: -əʊk Etymology: Back-formation from artichoke. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|artichoke}} Back-formation from artichoke Head templates: {{en-noun}} choke (plural chokes)
  1. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
    Sense id: en-choke-en-noun-Jpm7PPZC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /t͡ʃəʊk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /t͡ʃoʊk/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-choke.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chokes [present, singular, third-person], choking [participle, present], choked [participle, past], choked [past]
enPR: chōk [General-American] Rhymes: -əʊk Etymology: From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|choken}} Middle English choken, {{m|enm|cheken}} cheken, {{m|en|acheken}} acheken, {{inh|en|ang|āċēocian||to choke}} Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), {{inh|en|ang|ċēoce}} Old English ċēoce, {{m|ang|ċēace||jaw, cheek}} ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), {{l|en|cheek}} cheek, {{cog|is|kok||throat}} Icelandic kok (“throat”), {{m|is|koka||to gulp}} koka (“to gulp”), {{l|en|achoke}} achoke Head templates: {{en-verb}} choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)
  1. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict). Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Auto parts Translations (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe): ἀσφυκτιῶ (asphuktiô) (Ancient Greek), πνίγω (pnígō) (Ancient Greek), اِخْتَنَقَ (iḵtanaqa) (Arabic), խեղդվել (xeġdvel) (Armenian), ito (Basque), затыха́цца (zatyxácca) [imperfective] (Belarusian), зато́хнуцца (zatóxnucca) [perfective] (Belarusian), затхну́цца (zatxnúcca) [perfective] (Belarusian), даві́цца (davícca) [imperfective] (Belarusian), падаві́цца (padavícca) (english: on food or drink) [perfective] (Belarusian), задуша́вам се (zadušávam se) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), задуша́ се (zadušá se) [perfective] (Bulgarian), задъ́хвам се (zadǎ́hvam se) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), задъ́хам се (zadǎ́ham se) [perfective] (Bulgarian), ennuegar-se (Catalan), ofegar-se (Catalan), خنکان (xinkan) (Central Kurdish), 窒息 (zhìxī) (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), 噎住 (yēzhù) (Chinese Mandarin), (qiāng) (english: on food or drink) (Chinese Mandarin), dusit se [imperfective] (Czech), udusit se [perfective] (Czech), verstikken (Dutch), stikken (Dutch), sufoki (Esperanto), kuristua (Finnish), tukehtua (Finnish), tikahtua (Finnish), suffoquer (French), s’étouffer (French), afogar (Galician), aganar (Galician), apedar (Galician), oufegar (Galician), atragoar (Galician), torgar (Galician), ersticken (German), verschlucken (German), ασφυκτιώ (asfyktió) (Greek), πνίγομαι (pnígomai) (Greek), נחנק (nikhnáq) (Hebrew), fullad (Hungarian), tacht (Irish), soffocare (Italian), 窒息する (chissoku suru) (alt: ちっそくする) (Japanese), 噎せる (museru) (english: on food or drink) (alt: むせる) (Japanese), ឈ្លក់ (chlŭək) (Khmer), ខក់ (khɑk) (Khmer), 질식하다 (jilsikhada) (Korean), sofegar (Lombard), stofegar [dialectal] (Lombard), се гуши (se guši) [imperfective] (Macedonian), се души (se duši) [imperfective] (Macedonian), cekik (Malay), цацах (cacax) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), хахах (xaxax) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), бүгших (bügšix) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ukalwa (Ngazidja Comorian), fetisîn (Northern Kurdish), خفه شدن (xafe šodan) (Persian), dławić się [imperfective] (Polish), zdławić się [perfective] (Polish), zadławić się [perfective] (Polish), krztusić się [imperfective] (Polish), zakrztusić się [perfective] (Polish), dusić się [imperfective] (Polish), udusić się [perfective] (Polish), sufocar (Portuguese), afogar (Portuguese), engasgar (Portuguese), sufoca (Romanian), задыха́ться (zadyxátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), задохну́ться (zadoxnútʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), дави́ться (davítʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), подави́ться (podavítʹsja) (english: on food or drink) [perfective] (Russian), угуши́вати се [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), угу́шити се [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ugušívati se [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ugúšiti se [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dusiť sa [imperfective] (Slovak), udusiť sa [imperfective] (Slovak), dušiti se [imperfective] (Slovene), zadušiti se [perfective] (Slovene), sofocar (Spanish), ahogar (Spanish), สำลัก (sǎm-lák) (Thai), หายใจติดขัด (Thai), boğmak (Turkish), задиха́тися (zadyxátysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), задихну́тися (zadyxnútysja) [perfective] (Ukrainian), дави́тися (davýtysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), подави́тися (podavýtysja) (english: on food or drink) [perfective] (Ukrainian), nghẹn (Vietnamese), hóc (Vietnamese), tagu (Welsh), דערשטיקט ווערן (dershtikt vern) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-vc4h1UQR Disambiguation of Auto parts: 9 4 3 6 6 4 5 9 3 5 4 4 4 7 3 2 3 3 4 5 6 3 Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 4 5 5 6 5 3 6 8 3 4 5 5 2 8 5 2 4 4 5 2 6 4 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 4 8 7 1 14 2 2 6 6 7 2 13 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 3 2 5 4 2 4 18 1 2 4 3 1 14 1 1 3 3 10 2 10 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 3 3 5 7 2 4 13 2 3 4 3 1 10 2 1 5 5 7 3 11 3 Disambiguation of 'be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe': 54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1
  2. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe. Tags: transitive Synonyms: asphyxiate, strangle, suffocate, throttle Translations (prevent someone from breathing by strangling them): ἄγχω (ánkhō) (Ancient Greek), خَنَقَ (ḵanaqa) (Arabic), խեղդել (xeġdel) (Armenian), boğmaq (Azerbaijani), душы́ць (dušýcʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), задушы́ць (zadušýcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), прыдушы́ць (prydušýcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), удушы́ць (udušýcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), задуша́вам (zadušávam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), задуша́ (zadušá) [perfective] (Bulgarian), уду́швам (udúšvam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), зада́вям (zadávjam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), зада́вя (zadávja) [perfective] (Bulgarian), escanyar (Catalan), ofegar (Catalan), خنکاندن (xinkandin) (Central Kurdish), 使窒息 (shǐ zhìxí) (Chinese Mandarin), boğmaq (Crimean Tatar), škrtit [imperfective] (Czech), dusit [imperfective] (Czech), udusit [perfective] (Czech), zadusit [perfective] (Czech), wurgen (Dutch), sufokigi (Esperanto), kuristaa (Finnish), étouffer (French), juguler (French), esganar (Galician), afogar (Galician), würgen (German), ersticken (German), 𐌰𐍆𐍈𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (afƕapjan) (Gothic), πνίγω (pnígo) (Greek), חָנַק (khanáq) (Hebrew), megfojt (Hungarian), tacht (Irish), plúch (Irish), strozzare (Italian), strangolare (Italian), asfissiare (Italian), 窒息させる (chissoku saseru) (alt: ちっそくさせる) (Japanese), ច្របាច់ក (crɑbac kɑɑ) (Khmer), 질식시키다 (jilsiksikida) (Korean), suffōcō (Latin), offōcō (Latin), strangulō (Latin), angō (Latin), sofegar (Lombard), stofegar [dialectal] (Lombard), задушува (zadušuva) [imperfective] (Macedonian), задуши (zaduši) [perfective] (Macedonian), задавува (zadavuva) [imperfective] (Macedonian), задави (zadavi) [perfective] (Macedonian), гуши (guši) [imperfective] (Macedonian), души (duši) [imperfective] (Macedonian), nanati (Maori), stranglen (Middle English), choken (Middle English), acheken (Middle English), багалзуурдах (bagalzuurdax) (Mongolian), боох (boox) (Mongolian), fetisandin (Northern Kurdish), بوغمق (boğmak) (Ottoman Turkish), خفه کردن (xafe kardan) (Persian), ai̯dovĕt [perfective] (Polabian), dusić [imperfective] (Polish), udusić [perfective] (Polish), estrangular (Portuguese), esganar (Portuguese), asfixiar (Portuguese), sufocar (Portuguese), души́ть (dušítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), задуши́ть (zadušítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), придуши́ть (pridušítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), удуши́ть (udušítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), tachd (Scottish Gaelic), mùch (Scottish Gaelic), угуши́вати [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), угу́шити [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), гу́шити [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ду́шити [Cyrillic, imperfective, literary] (Serbo-Croatian), ugušívati [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ugúšiti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), gúšiti [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dúšiti [Roman, imperfective, literary] (Serbo-Croatian), dusiť [imperfective] (Slovak), udusiť [perfective] (Slovak), zadusiť [perfective] (Slovak), dušiti [imperfective] (Slovene), zadušiti [perfective] (Slovene), estrangular (Spanish), asfixiar (Spanish), kväva (Swedish), บีบคอ (bìip-kɔɔ) (Thai), души́ти (dušýty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), задуши́ти (zadušýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), удуши́ти (udušýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), bóp cổ (Vietnamese), tagu (Welsh), דערשטיקן (dershtikn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-2RVBLoOi Disambiguation of 'prevent someone from breathing by strangling them': 7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2
  3. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it. Tags: transitive Synonyms: block up, bung up, clog, congest, jam, obstruct, stop up
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-7W6C0KNB
  4. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen). Tags: transitive Synonyms: choke out, stifle Translations (to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds): ersticken (German), unterdrücken (German), πνίγω (pnígo) (Greek), tacht (Irish), plúch (Irish), kōwaowao (Maori)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-~g0Wuwkn Disambiguation of 'to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds': 5 7 8 59 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 3 4
  5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning. Tags: colloquial, intransitive Translations (perform badly at a competition despite appearing to be winning): cruzazulear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-BBdh7pyu Disambiguation of 'perform badly at a competition despite appearing to be winning': 6 3 4 3 58 3 4 3 1 2 2 2 1 3 5
  6. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-BzfbM7Lp
  7. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Baseball, Golf
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-Z-xTOGWl Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 4 5 5 6 5 3 6 8 3 4 5 5 2 8 5 2 4 4 5 2 6 4 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 4 8 7 1 14 2 2 6 6 7 2 13 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 3 2 5 4 2 4 18 1 2 4 3 1 14 1 1 3 3 10 2 10 4 Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  8. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking Tags: intransitive Synonyms: stick
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-Hz7ORf7k
  9. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-hhwTJnlY
  10. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-5xrGD5mV
  11. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-71asuJGP
  12. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-7Aywty~o Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 3 2 5 4 2 4 18 1 2 4 3 1 14 1 1 3 3 10 2 10 4
  13. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-47nCcNao
  14. (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). Tags: intransitive, of a duct Categories (topical): Mechanics
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-HCoKDyog Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 4 8 7 1 14 2 2 6 6 7 2 13 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 3 2 5 4 2 4 18 1 2 4 3 1 14 1 1 3 3 10 2 10 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 3 3 5 7 2 4 13 2 3 4 3 1 10 2 1 5 5 7 3 11 3
  15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
    Sense id: en-choke-en-verb-CTh9Cb-q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: choak [obsolete], choake [obsolete], chock [dialectal]
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "iḵtanaqa",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "اِخْتَنَقَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "xeġdvel",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "խեղդվել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zatyxácca",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "затыха́цца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zatóxnucca",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "зато́хнуцца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zatxnúcca",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "затхну́цца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "davícca",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "даві́цца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "be",
          "english": "on food or drink",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "padavícca",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "падаві́цца"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadušávam se",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задуша́вам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadušá se",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задуша́ се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadǎ́hvam se",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задъ́хвам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadǎ́ham se",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задъ́хам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ennuegar-se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ofegar-se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhìxī",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "窒息"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "嗆"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "呛"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yēzhù",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "噎住"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "on food or drink",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiāng",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "呛"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dusit se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "udusit se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "verstikken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "stikken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "sufoki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "kuristua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "tukehtua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "tikahtua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "suffoquer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "s’étouffer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "afogar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "aganar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "apedar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "oufegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "atragoar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "torgar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ersticken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "verschlucken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "asfyktió",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ασφυκτιώ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "pnígomai",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "πνίγομαι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "asphuktiô",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ἀσφυκτιῶ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "pnígō",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "πνίγω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "nikhnáq",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "נחנק"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "fullad"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "tacht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "soffocare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "alt": "ちっそくする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "chissoku suru",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "窒息する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "alt": "むせる",
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "on food or drink",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "museru",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "噎せる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "chlŭək",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ឈ្លក់"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "khɑk",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ខក់"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jilsikhada",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "질식하다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "xinkan",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "خنکان"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "fetisîn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "sofegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "stofegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "se guši",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "се гуши"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "se duši",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "се души"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "cekik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "cacax",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "цацах"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "xaxax",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
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          "word": "хахах"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "bügšix",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "бүгших"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "zdj",
          "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ukalwa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "xafe šodan",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "خفه شدن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dławić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zdławić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zadławić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "krztusić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zakrztusić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dusić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "udusić się"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "sufocar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "afogar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "engasgar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "sufoca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zadyxátʹsja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задыха́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zadoxnútʹsja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задохну́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "davítʹsja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "дави́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "on food or drink",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podavítʹsja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "подави́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "угуши́вати се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "угу́шити се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ugušívati se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ugúšiti se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dusiť sa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "udusiť sa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dušiti se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zadušiti se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "sofocar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "ahogar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "sǎm-lák",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "สำลัก"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "หายใจติดขัด"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "boğmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zadyxátysja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задиха́тися"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zadyxnútysja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задихну́тися"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "davýtysja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "дави́тися"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "english": "on food or drink",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "podavýtysja",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "подави́тися"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "nghẹn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "hóc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "tagu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 13 0 12 1",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "dershtikt vern",
          "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
          "word": "דערשטיקט ווערן"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Willa Cather, chapter 15, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 282–283",
          "text": "The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke-en-verb-2RVBLoOi",
      "links": [
        [
          "strangling",
          "strangling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "asphyxiate"
        },
        {
          "word": "strangle"
        },
        {
          "word": "suffocate"
        },
        {
          "word": "throttle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḵanaqa",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "خَنَقَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "xeġdel",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "խեղդել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "boğmaq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "dušýcʹ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "душы́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zadušýcʹ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задушы́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "prydušýcʹ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "прыдушы́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "udušýcʹ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "удушы́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadušávam",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задуша́вам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadušá",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задуша́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "udúšvam",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "уду́швам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadávjam",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "зада́вям"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zadávja",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "зада́вя"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "escanyar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "ofegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǐ zhìxí",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "使窒息"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "crh",
          "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "boğmaq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "škrtit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "dusit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "udusit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zadusit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "wurgen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "sufokigi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "kuristaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "étouffer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "juguler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "esganar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "afogar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "würgen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "ersticken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "afƕapjan",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "𐌰𐍆𐍈𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "pnígo",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "πνίγω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ánkhō",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "ἄγχω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "khanáq",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "חָנַק"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "megfojt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "tacht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "plúch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "strozzare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "strangolare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "asfissiare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "alt": "ちっそくさせる",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "chissoku saseru",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "窒息させる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "crɑbac kɑɑ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "ច្របាច់ក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jilsiksikida",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "질식시키다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "xinkandin",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "خنکاندن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "fetisandin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "suffōcō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "offōcō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "strangulō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "angō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "sofegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "dialectal"
          ],
          "word": "stofegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zadušuva",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задушува"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zaduši",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "задуши"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zadavuva",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "задавува"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zadavi",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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        {
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "nanati"
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "enm",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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          "roman": "boox",
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          "word": "боох"
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          "code": "ota",
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          "word": "بوغمق"
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "خفه کردن"
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        {
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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          "word": "ai̯dovĕt"
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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        {
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "esganar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "pt",
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          "word": "asfixiar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "roman": "dušítʹ",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "души́ть"
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          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "придуши́ть"
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          "word": "mùch"
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
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        {
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        },
        {
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          "code": "th",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "บีบคอ"
        },
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          "roman": "dušýty",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "души́ти"
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          "roman": "zadušýty",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "задуши́ти"
        },
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          "roman": "udušýty",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "удуши́ти"
        },
        {
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "bóp cổ"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cy",
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          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "tagu"
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          "_dis1": "7 55 7 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2",
          "code": "yi",
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          "roman": "dershtikn",
          "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
          "word": "דערשטיקן"
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        {
          "text": "to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709 January 14, Joseph Addison, “The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.”, in The Tatler, volume 3, number 120, London, published 1712, page 31",
          "text": "This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492",
          "text": "But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1962 April, “London Airport rail link”, in Modern Railways, page 222",
          "text": "There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 13, in The Garden of Evening Mists, New York: Weinstein Books, page 168",
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        "(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it."
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          "word": "block up"
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        {
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        },
        {
          "word": "clog"
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        {
          "word": "congest"
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          "word": "jam"
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        {
          "word": "obstruct"
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        {
          "word": "stop up"
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        {
          "text": "1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22,\nNo fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;\nBut Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nuruddin Farah, chapter 3, in Secrets, Penguin, published 1999, page 67",
          "text": "I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        {
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        {
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          "code": "mi",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019 January 22, “1 Point Away, Serena Stunned by Pliskova at Australian Open”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "“I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”",
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        "(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning."
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "perform badly at a competition despite appearing to be winning",
          "word": "cruzazulear"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1973, Wayne Otto et al., chapter 13, in Corrective and Remedial Teaching, 2nd edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 361",
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        }
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        "(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool."
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      ]
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108",
          "text": "Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "transitive"
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        "ball-games",
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        "lifestyle",
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      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Part 3, Chapter 29, p. 413",
          "text": "Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.",
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        "(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking"
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          "ref": "1684, Aphra Behn, “The Amours of Philander and Silvia”, in Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister, London, page 277",
          "text": "A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, William John Locke, chapter 20, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne",
          "text": "Her laugh got choked by a sob.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Chaim Potok, chapter 18, in The Chosen, New York: Ballantine, published 1982, page 282",
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        "(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking."
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          "ref": "1894, Israel Zangwill, chapter 2, in The King of Schnorrers, New York: Macmillan, page 48",
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        },
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          "text": "2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435,\nTajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?"
        }
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        "(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion."
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          "ref": "1712, Jonathan Swift, “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”, in The Works of J.S., volume 1, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1735, page 104",
          "text": "[…] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]",
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          "ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act IV, page 80",
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          "ref": "1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 42",
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          "ref": "1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 6, in Kim",
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        },
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          "ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber and Faber, published 1997, Epilogue, p. 583",
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          "ref": "1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 492",
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          "word": "ឆូក"
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          "sense": "control on a carburetor",
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          "sense": "control on a carburetor",
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          "sense": "control on a carburetor",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Romanian",
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          "word": "valvul ajri"
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
          "word": "kvælertag"
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          "_dis1": "3 69 4 8 8 7",
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
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          "word": "kuristusote"
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          "code": "de",
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          "word": "Würgegriff"
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            "masculine"
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          "_dis1": "3 69 4 8 8 7",
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          "roman": "mokjo reugi",
          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
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          "_dis1": "3 69 4 8 8 7",
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
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          "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
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          "word": "indirimli"
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          "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in The Desert of Wheat, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 66",
          "text": "Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unable",
          "unable"
        ],
        [
          "breathe",
          "breathe"
        ],
        [
          "obstruction",
          "obstruction"
        ],
        [
          "windpipe",
          "windpipe"
        ],
        [
          "go down the wrong way",
          "go down the wrong way"
        ],
        [
          "constrict",
          "constrict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Willa Cather, chapter 15, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 282–283",
          "text": "The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strangling",
          "strangling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "asphyxiate"
        },
        {
          "word": "strangle"
        },
        {
          "word": "suffocate"
        },
        {
          "word": "throttle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709 January 14, Joseph Addison, “The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.”, in The Tatler, volume 3, number 120, London, published 1712, page 31",
          "text": "This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492",
          "text": "But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 April, “London Airport rail link”, in Modern Railways, page 222",
          "text": "There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 13, in The Garden of Evening Mists, New York: Weinstein Books, page 168",
          "text": "The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "obstruct",
          "obstruct"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "block up"
        },
        {
          "word": "bung up"
        },
        {
          "word": "clog"
        },
        {
          "word": "congest"
        },
        {
          "word": "jam"
        },
        {
          "word": "obstruct"
        },
        {
          "word": "stop up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22,\nNo fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;\nBut Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nuruddin Farah, chapter 3, in Secrets, Penguin, published 1999, page 67",
          "text": "I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hinder",
          "hinder"
        ],
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
        ],
        [
          "rob",
          "rob"
        ],
        [
          "extinguish",
          "extinguish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "choke out"
        },
        {
          "word": "stifle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "2021, The Milwaukee Brewers choked in the playoffs:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 22, “1 Point Away, Serena Stunned by Pliskova at Australian Open”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "“I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, Wayne Otto et al., chapter 13, in Corrective and Remedial Teaching, 2nd edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 361",
          "text": "A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finger",
          "finger"
        ],
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "tip",
          "tip"
        ],
        [
          "pencil",
          "pencil"
        ],
        [
          "brush",
          "brush"
        ],
        [
          "tool",
          "tool"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Baseball",
        "en:Golf"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108",
          "text": "Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "golf",
          "golf"
        ],
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "shaft",
          "shaft"
        ],
        [
          "shorten",
          "shorten"
        ],
        [
          "swing",
          "swing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "golf",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Part 3, Chapter 29, p. 413",
          "text": "Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be checked or stopped, as if by choking"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stick"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1684, Aphra Behn, “The Amours of Philander and Silvia”, in Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister, London, page 277",
          "text": "A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, William John Locke, chapter 20, in The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne",
          "text": "Her laugh got choked by a sob.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Chaim Potok, chapter 18, in The Chosen, New York: Ballantine, published 1982, page 282",
          "text": "Danny let out a soft, half-choked, trembling moan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "utterance",
          "utterance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Israel Zangwill, chapter 2, in The King of Schnorrers, New York: Macmillan, page 48",
          "text": "Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435,\nTajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strangulation",
          "strangulation"
        ],
        [
          "passion",
          "passion"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1712, Jonathan Swift, “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”, in The Works of J.S., volume 1, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1735, page 104",
          "text": "[…] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act IV, page 80",
          "text": "I shall run distracted. My rage choaks me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 42",
          "text": "Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 6, in Kim",
          "text": "‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber and Faber, published 1997, Epilogue, p. 583",
          "text": "“The bastards!” he choked. “I hope they are all caught and hanged!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "constrict",
          "constrict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 492",
          "text": "The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Mechanics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fluid mechanics",
          "fluid mechanics"
        ],
        [
          "duct",
          "duct"
        ],
        [
          "flowrate",
          "flowrate"
        ],
        [
          "sonic",
          "sonic"
        ],
        [
          "Ma",
          "Ma"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "fluid mechanics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "of a duct"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choke",
          "#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃəʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "chōk",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "choak"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "choake"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "chock"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "iḵtanaqa",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "اِخْتَنَقَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xeġdvel",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "խեղդվել"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ito"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zatyxácca",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "затыха́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zatóxnucca",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "зато́хнуцца"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zatxnúcca",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "затхну́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "davícca",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "даві́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "english": "on food or drink",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "padavícca",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "падаві́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadušávam se",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуша́вам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadušá se",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуша́ се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadǎ́hvam se",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задъ́хвам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadǎ́ham se",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задъ́хам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ennuegar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ofegar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhìxī",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "窒息"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "嗆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "呛"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yēzhù",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "噎住"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "on food or drink",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiāng",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "呛"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusit se"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "verstikken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "stikken"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "sufoki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "kuristua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "tukehtua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "tikahtua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "suffoquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "s’étouffer"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "afogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "aganar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "apedar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "oufegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "atragoar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "torgar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ersticken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "verschlucken"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asfyktió",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ασφυκτιώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pnígomai",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "πνίγομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "asphuktiô",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ἀσφυκτιῶ"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pnígō",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "πνίγω"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "nikhnáq",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "נחנק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "fullad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "tacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "soffocare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ちっそくする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chissoku suru",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "窒息する"
    },
    {
      "alt": "むせる",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "on food or drink",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "museru",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "噎せる"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "chlŭək",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ឈ្លក់"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "khɑk",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ខក់"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jilsikhada",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "질식하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "xinkan",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "خنکان"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "fetisîn"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "sofegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "stofegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "se guši",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "се гуши"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "se duši",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "се души"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "cekik"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "cacax",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "цацах"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "xaxax",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хахах"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "bügšix",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "бүгших"
    },
    {
      "code": "zdj",
      "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ukalwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xafe šodan",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "خفه شدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dławić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zdławić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadławić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "krztusić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zakrztusić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "sufocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "afogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "engasgar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "sufoca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zadyxátʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задыха́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zadoxnútʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задохну́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "davítʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "дави́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "on food or drink",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podavítʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "подави́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "угуши́вати се"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "угу́шити се"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ugušívati se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ugúšiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusiť sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusiť sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dušiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadušiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "sofocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "ahogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sǎm-lák",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "สำลัก"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "หายใจติดขัด"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "boğmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zadyxátysja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задиха́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zadyxnútysja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задихну́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "davýtysja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "дави́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "english": "on food or drink",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "podavýtysja",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "подави́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "nghẹn"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "hóc"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "tagu"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "dershtikt vern",
      "sense": "be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe",
      "word": "דערשטיקט ווערן"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḵanaqa",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "خَنَقَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xeġdel",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "խեղդել"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "boğmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dušýcʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "душы́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zadušýcʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задушы́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "prydušýcʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "прыдушы́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "udušýcʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "удушы́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadušávam",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуша́вам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadušá",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуша́"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "udúšvam",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "уду́швам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadávjam",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "зада́вям"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zadávja",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "зада́вя"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "escanyar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "ofegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǐ zhìxí",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "使窒息"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "boğmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "škrtit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadusit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "wurgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "sufokigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "kuristaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "étouffer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "juguler"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "esganar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "afogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "würgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "ersticken"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "afƕapjan",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "𐌰𐍆𐍈𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pnígo",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "πνίγω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ánkhō",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "ἄγχω"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "khanáq",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "חָנַק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "megfojt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "tacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "plúch"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "strozzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "strangolare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "asfissiare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ちっそくさせる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chissoku saseru",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "窒息させる"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "crɑbac kɑɑ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "ច្របាច់ក"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jilsiksikida",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "질식시키다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "xinkandin",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "خنکاندن"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "fetisandin"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "suffōcō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "offōcō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "strangulō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "angō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "sofegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "stofegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zadušuva",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задушува"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zaduši",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуши"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zadavuva",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "задавува"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zadavi",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задави"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "guši",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "гуши"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "duši",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "души"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "nanati"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "stranglen"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "choken"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "acheken"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "bagalzuurdax",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "багалзуурдах"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "boox",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "боох"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "boğmak",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "بوغمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xafe kardan",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "خفه کردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pox",
      "lang": "Polabian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ai̯dovĕt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "estrangular"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "esganar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "asfixiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "sufocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dušítʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "души́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zadušítʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуши́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pridušítʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "придуши́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udušítʹ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "удуши́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "tachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "mùch"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "угуши́вати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "угу́шити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "гу́шити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ду́шити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ugušívati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ugúšiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "gúšiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "dúšiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dusiť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "udusiť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadusiť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dušiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zadušiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "estrangular"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "asfixiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "kväva"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bìip-kɔɔ",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "บีบคอ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dušýty",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "души́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zadušýty",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "задуши́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "udušýty",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "удуши́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "bóp cổ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "tagu"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "dershtikn",
      "sense": "prevent someone from breathing by strangling them",
      "word": "דערשטיקן"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "ersticken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "unterdrücken"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pnígo",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "πνίγω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "tacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "plúch"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to hinder growth of a plant especially as by weeds",
      "word": "kōwaowao"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "perform badly at a competition despite appearing to be winning",
      "word": "cruzazulear"
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke"
}

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    "English ergative verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English reporting verbs",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk",
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    "en:Automotive"
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    {
      "word": "air choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "blood choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "breadcutter choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke a darkie"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke back"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokeberry"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokebore"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke chain"
    },
    {
      "word": "choker chain"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokecherry"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke-children"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke collar"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke damp"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokedamp"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke-dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke down"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke-full"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke-hold"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke hold"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokehold"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke off"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke out"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke pear"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokepoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke point"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke price"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke-priest"
    },
    {
      "word": "choker"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokeslam"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokestrap"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke the chicken"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke the luff"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke tube"
    },
    {
      "word": "choke up"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokey"
    },
    {
      "word": "choky"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokily"
    },
    {
      "word": "choking bloom"
    },
    {
      "word": "choking coil"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokecoil"
    },
    {
      "word": "chokingly"
    },
    {
      "word": "enough to choke a horse"
    },
    {
      "word": "guillotine choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "multichoke"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonchoked"
    },
    {
      "word": "one throat to choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "rear naked choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "rope and choke"
    },
    {
      "word": "too much pudding will choke a dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "unchoke"
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English choken",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "cheken"
      },
      "expansion": "cheken",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "acheken"
      },
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      "args": {
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "jaw, cheek"
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "cheek",
      "name": "l"
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "throat"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "koka",
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        "4": "to gulp"
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      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "achoke"
      },
      "expansion": "achoke",
      "name": "l"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.",
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        "plural"
      ]
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        "A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "carburetor",
          "carburetor"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "fuel",
          "fuel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "strangulation",
          "strangulation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation."
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot."
      ],
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        [
          "constriction",
          "constriction"
        ],
        [
          "muzzle",
          "muzzle"
        ],
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          "shotgun",
          "shotgun"
        ],
        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "shot",
          "shot"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blockage",
          "blockage"
        ],
        [
          "cave",
          "cave"
        ],
        [
          "passage",
          "passage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Electronics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A choking coil."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electronics",
          "electronics"
        ],
        [
          "choking coil",
          "choking coil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electronics) A choking coil."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "electronics",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
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          "nervous",
          "nervous"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃəʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
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      "enpr": "chōk",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "choak"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "choake"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "chock"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "verstik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "asfiksim"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "smukač",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "смукач"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "sytič"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "choker"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "choke"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "stringovalvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "rikastin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "ryyppy"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "starter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Choke"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Drossel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tsok",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "τσοκ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "emfráktis",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "εμφράκτης"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tachtaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tachtóir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "starter"
    },
    {
      "alt": "チョークべん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chōkuben",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "チョーク弁"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cʰook",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "ឆូក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sɑnteah kcɑl",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "សន្ទះខ្យល់"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kaa tʰɑp",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "ការថប់"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kaa tup",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "ការទប់"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "chokeu",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "초크"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sauh",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "саух"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "choke"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ssanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "afogador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "șoc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaslónka",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "засло́нка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estrangulador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "choke"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "chóok",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "โช้ค"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "jikle"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "control on a carburetor",
      "word": "tagu"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "wurggreep"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "valvul ajri"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "kvælertag"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "macht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "kuristusote"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "mainmise"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "Würgegriff"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tachtadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mokjo reugi",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "목조 르기"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kvelertak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uścisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mata-leão"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "škrtenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estrangulamiento"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "järngrepp"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "bastırma"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "type of hold in wrestling etc.",
      "word": "sự nắm cổ người nào"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "mbytje"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "snížené"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "reduceret"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "supistin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "réduit"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reducido"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Würgebohrung"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tsok",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "τσοκ"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "redusert"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "smanjen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "zníženej"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "minskas"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "indirimli"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "constriction at a shotgun barrel",
      "word": "giảm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "blockage in cave passage",
      "word": "tukos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "blockage in cave passage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Versturz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "choking coil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Drosselspule"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "choking coil",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Drossel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke"
}

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    "English ergative verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊk/1 syllable",
    "en:Auto parts",
    "en:Automotive"
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        "2": "artichoke"
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      "expansion": "Back-formation from artichoke",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from artichoke.",
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      "tags": [
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          "text": "Once all the leaves are gone, a hairy little island will remain in the middle of the artichoke. This is the “choke.” A gentleman uses his knife and fork to slice it away, uncovering the delicious artichoke “heart” underneath.]",
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃoʊk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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        "Southern-England"
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      "enpr": "chōk",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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}

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