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choke

B1 verb

choke /t͡ʃoʊk/ nghĩa là nghẹn, hóc

Các nghĩa

  1. nghẹn · hóc

    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.

    Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.

  2. bóp cổ

    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.

    With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:

    The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]

  3. làm tắc nghẽn

    To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

    transitive

    to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud

    But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.

    There have been predictions that within a few years all roads within a 17-mile radius of the Airport will be choked.

  4. kìm hãm, làm chết

    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

    And some [seeds] fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

    I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.

  5. thi đấu tệ khi quyết định

    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.

    “I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”

  6. cầm sát ngòi

    To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

    transitive

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. cầm vợt/gậy thấp xuống

    To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.

    transitive

    Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

  2. bị nghẹn, bị tắc

    To be checked or stopped, as if by choking

    intransitive

    […] the words choked in his throat.

    Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.

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