choke betydelse and definition

Betydelse av choke på svenska

• 0 If you choke, or if something chokes you, you stop breathing because something is blocking your throat:

  • She choked to death on a fish bone.

  • Children can choke on peanuts.

  • Peanuts can choke a small child.

• 1 to fill something such as a road or pipe, so that nothing can pass through:

  • At lunchtime the streets were choked with traffic.

• 2 (usually in sports) to fail to do something at a time when it is urgent, usually because you suddenly lose confidence:

  • He could score points at will during the qualifying matches, but in the final he completely choked.

• 3 a device in a motor vehicle that changes the amount of air going into the engine, allowing more fuel compared to air to go in and therefore making the engine easier to start