choke

/tʃoʊk/

意味: 詰まる、息が詰まる

例文: Kai choked on excitement, not popcorn.
　　  カイがポップコーンでなく興奮でむせた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: choke on (〜で窒息する), choke up (詰まる), choke back (抑える)

定義: 息ができなくなることや、何かが喉に詰まることを指します。食べ物や飲み物が喉に詰まって息ができなくなる場合や、感情が高ぶって言葉が出なくなる場合にも使われます。

chokeは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
Noun: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
Verb: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
Verb: be too tight; rub or press
Verb: wring the neck of
Verb: constrict (someone’s) throat and keep from breathing
Verb: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
Verb: fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
Verb: check or slow down the action or effect of
Verb: become or cause to become obstructed
Verb: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
Verb: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
Verb: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
Verb: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Verb: reduce the air supply
Verb: cause to retch or choke

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

He began to choke on his food during dinner.(彼は夕食中に食べ物でむせ始めた。)
Don’t laugh too hard, or you might choke!(あまり大声で笑わないで、むせるかもしれないよ！)
The sudden grief made her feel as if she might choke.(突然の悲しみで彼女はむせそうになった。)
Verb: She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband
Verb: This neckband is choking the cat
Verb: The man choked his opponent
Verb: he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
Verb: The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience
Verb: She choked her anger
Verb: The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
Verb: The water pipe is backed up
Verb: The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
Verb: He is suffocating–living at home with his aged parents in the small village
Verb: His job suffocated him
Verb: She died from cancer
Verb: The children perished in the fire
Verb: The patient went peacefully
Verb: The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Verb: choke a carburetor

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): asphyxiate, back up, buy the farm, cash in one’s chips, choke, choke coil, choke off, choking coil, clog, clog up, congest, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, foul, fret, gag, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, scrag, snuff it, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle

Antonyms(反意語): be born, unclog

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): become, breathe, change state, coil, compress, enrich, fail, inhibit, obstruct, sicken, stifle, suffer, valve

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerator, acidify, ail, alkalize, armature, astatic coils, astringe, ball valve, barricade, be born, bear down, become, better, blockade, boil, break, burn, butterfly valve, calcify, calm, carbonize, carnify, catalyze, choke, chondrify, citrate, clack valve, clog, close, clot, cloud over, coke, come, come to, conceive, concentrate, convulse, cool, cross-fertilize, curdle, dam, default, denitrify, die, disengage, dissolve, dress, emaciate, emancipate, empty, emulsify, equilibrate, erupt, esterify, etherify, exhale, exhaust valve, explode, fall, fertilize, field coil, fill, fluctuate, freeze, frenchify, gag, gain, get into, get worse, have, heat, hiccup, homogenize, hyperventilate, induction coil, inhale, intake valve, integrate, ionize, land up, liquefy, lose track, miss, muff, nucleate, open, ossify, overgrow, poppet, precipitate, prim, primary coil, quench, react, read/write head, reduce, relax, respire, restrain, round out, safety valve, screen, secondary coil, secularize, sigh, slide valve, snore, solenoid, solvate, sorb, sour, starve, strangulate, strike out, suffocate, tense, thicken, thin, thrive, thrombose, tickler coil, tie up, wake up, wheeze, worsen, yawn, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abort, automatic choke, buy it, crap up, drown, fall, gum up, predecease, silt up, starve, stuff, succumb, suffocate

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: Death, asphyxia, asphyxiation, backup, choke, choker, choking, clog, congestion, congestive, death, decease, decedent, exit, expiration, going, passing, scrag, strangulation, suffocation, suffocative, throttle

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: informal

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, negative, sadness