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choking
(encz) | choking,dusivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
choking
(encz) | choking,škrtivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Choking
(gcide) | Choke \Choke\ (ch[=o]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. &
vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [=a]ceocian
to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]
1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or
squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to
strangle.
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With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
--Shak.
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2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
block up. --Addison.
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3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.;
to stifle.
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Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden.
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4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or
strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." --Swift.
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5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the
barrel of a shotgun.
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To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a
purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
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Choking
(gcide) | Choking \Chok"ing\, a.
1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
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2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected
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choking
(wn) | choking
n 1: a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as
with food or swelling of the larynx)
2: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the
windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the
accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation,
throttling] |
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choking
(encz) | choking,dusivý adj: Zdeněk Brožchoking,škrtivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
choking coil
(encz) | choking coil,tlumivka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Choking coil
(gcide) | Choking coil \Choking coil\ (Elec.)
A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an
alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the
current, or to change its phase; -- called also {reactance
coil} or reactor, these terms being now preferred in
engineering usage.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] Choky |
choking
(wn) | choking
n 1: a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as
with food or swelling of the larynx)
2: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the
windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the
accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation,
throttling] |
choking coil
(wn) | choking coil
n 1: a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in
electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate
alternating current [syn: choke, choke coil, {choking
coil}] |
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