| choke | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. choke, choke coil, choking coil | a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| ~ coil | reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. choke | a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine. |
| ~ automatic choke | a choke that automatically controls the flow of air to the carburetor. |
| ~ fuel system | equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine. |
| ~ valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid. |
| v. (body) | 3. choke | breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" |
| ~ breathe, take a breath, suspire, respire | draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" |
| v. (contact) | 4. choke, fret, gag | be too tight; rub or press.; "This neckband is choking the cat" |
| ~ constrict, compress, contract, compact, press, squeeze | squeeze or press together.; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" |
| v. (contact) | 5. choke, scrag | wring the neck of.; "The man choked his opponent" |
| ~ constrict, compress, contract, compact, press, squeeze | squeeze or press together.; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" |
| v. (body) | 6. choke, strangle | constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing. |
| ~ choke | breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion.; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" |
| ~ constrict, compress, contract, compact, press, squeeze | squeeze or press together.; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" |
| v. (body) | 7. choke, gag, strangle, suffocate | struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" |
| ~ suffer, hurt | feel pain or be in pain. |
| v. (social) | 8. 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" |
| ~ fail, neglect | fail to do something; leave something undone.; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" |
| v. (social) | 9. choke | check or slow down the action or effect of.; "She choked her anger" |
| ~ bottle up, suppress, inhibit | control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior. |
| v. (contact) | 10. back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul | become or cause to become obstructed.; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
| ~ gum up | stick together as if with gum.; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ crap up | become obstructed or chocked up.; "The drains clogged up" |
| ~ choke up, lug, stuff, block | obstruct.; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" |
| ~ silt, silt up | become chocked with silt.; "The river silted up" |
| v. (contact) | 11. asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| v. (change) | 12. choke, suffocate | become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" |
| ~ suffocate, choke | suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.; "His job suffocated him" |
| ~ become, turn | undergo a change or development.; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" |
| v. (change) | 13. choke, suffocate | suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of.; "His job suffocated him" |
| ~ dampen, stifle | smother or suppress.; "Stifle your curiosity" |
| ~ suffocate, choke | become stultified, suppressed, or stifled.; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" |
| v. (change) | 14. buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ abort | cease development, die, and be aborted.; "an aborting fetus" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate | be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen.; "The child suffocated under the pillow" |
| ~ buy it, pip out | be killed or die. |
| ~ drown | die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.; "The child drowned in the lake" |
| ~ predecease | die before; die earlier than.; "She predeceased her husband" |
| ~ conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| ~ starve, famish | die of food deprivation.; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought" |
| ~ die | suffer or face the pain of death.; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith" |
| ~ fall | die, as in battle or in a hunt.; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead" |
| ~ succumb, yield | be fatally overwhelmed. |
| v. (change) | 15. choke, throttle | reduce the air supply.; "choke a carburetor" |
| ~ enrich | make better or improve in quality.; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" |
| v. (body) | 16. choke, gag | cause to retch or choke. |
| ~ sicken | make sick or ill.; "This kind of food sickens me" |
| swell | | |
| n. (event) | 1. crestless wave, swell | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea. |
| ~ heavy swell, ground swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean. |
| ~ moving ridge, wave | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
| n. (object) | 2. swell | a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor). |
| ~ natural elevation, elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. swell | a crescendo followed by a decrescendo. |
| ~ crescendo | (music) a gradual increase in loudness. |
| n. (person) | 4. beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. |
| ~ coxcomb, cockscomb | a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments. |
| ~ macaroni | a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms.; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| ~ beau brummell, brummell, george bryan brummell | English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840). |
| v. (change) | 5. swell | increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.; "The music swelled to a crescendo" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| v. (social) | 6. puff up, swell | become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| v. (change) | 7. intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce | expand abnormally.; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" |
| ~ distend | swell from or as if from internal pressure.; "The distended bellies of the starving cows" |
| ~ expand | become larger in size or volume or quantity.; "his business expanded rapidly" |
| ~ belly, belly out | swell out or bulge out. |
| ~ puff out, puff up, puff, blow up | to swell or cause to enlarge,.; "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" |
| ~ bloat | become bloated or swollen or puff up.; "The dead man's stomach was bloated" |
| ~ blister, vesicate | get blistered.; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" |
| v. (stative) | 8. swell, well up | come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it" |
| ~ arise, originate, spring up, uprise, develop, grow, rise | come into existence; take on form or shape.; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" |
| v. (motion) | 9. swell, well | come up, as of a liquid.; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up" |
| ~ rise up, surface, come up, rise | come to the surface. |
| v. (change) | 10. swell | cause to become swollen.; "The water swells the wood" |
| ~ grow | cause to grow or develop.; "He grows vegetables in his backyard" |
| ~ bulk, bulge | cause to bulge or swell outwards. |
| ~ swell up, tumesce, intumesce, tumefy, swell | expand abnormally.; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" |
| ~ tumefy | cause to become very swollen. |
| ~ bloat | make bloated or swollen.; "Hunger bloated the child's belly" |
| adj. | 11. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
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