A Quick and Simple Dictionary

choke

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling them.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
4. Verb.  (transitive) Of a cave passage, to be partly or completely blocked by boulders, mud etc.
5. Verb.  To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
6. Noun.  A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
7. Noun.  (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
8. Noun.  A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
9. Noun.  A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.