choke

En français : suffoquer, s'étouffer, étouffer, juguler

1. 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). (intransitive) · Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
2. To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe. (transitive) · The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.
3. To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it. (transitive) · to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
4. 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). (transitive)
5. To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning. (colloquial, intransitive) · He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.
6. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool. (transitive)
7. To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing. (transitive)
8. To be checked or stopped, as if by choking (intransitive)

He/she/it chokes · Prétérit choked · Participe passé choked · Forme en -ing choking