choke out

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.

   “Language failed. Pause—impotent struggle for further words—then he gave it up, choked out a deep, strong oath, and departed for good.”

2. fiil To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.

   “We had reached the end of the grass where the bush and trees of the mountain slope had choked it out […]”

3. fiil To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
4. fiil To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.

   “[…] he would earnestly and pathetically plead that we should not, as Priests, suffer the serving of tables to choke out that inner life of the spirit which it was our first duty to feed and nourish.”

5. fiil To prevent (light) from passing through.

   “Although this ivy had choked out what little light might have trickled into the room, it was not strong enough to prevent the birds from finding a way through and from visiting Lady Gertrude at any hour of night or day.”

6. fiil To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.

   “We got out of the car, the guy resisted, and I choked him out. The bar arm was the tool of choice in those days. If anybody resisted, we just choked him out.”