choked

Meanings

Verb

• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
  • "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
• be too tight; rub or press
• wring the neck of
  • "The man choked his opponent"
• constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
• fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
  • "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
• check or slow down the action or effect of
  • "She choked her anger"
• become or cause to become obstructed
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
• become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
• suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• reduce the air supply
• cause to retch or choke
• simple past and past participle of choke

Adjective Satellite

• stopped up; clogged up
  • "streets choked with traffic"

Adj

• Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
• Blocked or obstructed by thick material, often plant growth.

Synonyms

asphyxiate, back up, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, clogged, congest, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, foul, fret, gag, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, scrag, snuff it, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle

Antonyms

be born, unclog