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choke noun

  /t͡ʃoʊk/ , /t͡ʃəʊk/
  • (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
 tachtadh
  • A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
 tachtaire, tachtóir

choke verb

  /t͡ʃoʊk/ , /t͡ʃəʊk/
  • (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
  • (transitive) 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).
 plúch, tacht
  • (intransitive) 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).
 tacht
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