Noun	1.	choke - a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current Synonyms: choke coil, choking coil
	2.	choke - a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
Verb	1.	choke - breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
	2.	choke - be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" Synonyms: gag, fret
	3.	choke - wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" Synonyms: scrag
	4.	choke - constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing Synonyms: strangle
	5.	choke - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate
	6.	choke - fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
	7.	choke - check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"
	8.	choke - become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" Synonyms: clog, clog up, congest, choke off, foul, back up
	9.	choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate, stifle
	10.	choke - become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" Synonyms: suffocate
	11.	choke - suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" Synonyms: suffocate
	12.	choke - die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket" Synonyms: croak, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, snuff it, pop off, conk
	13.	choke - reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" Synonyms: throttle
	14.	choke - cause to retch or choke Synonyms: gag

1.		choke - To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." "I tried building an Emacs binary to use X, but "cpp(1)" choked on all those "#define"s." See barf, gag.
2.		choke - [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

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