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noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- The state of being friends
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.
- state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat
- dull and pompous gravity
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being stuffy.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.
adj
verb
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- form an impenetrable cover over
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
noun
verb
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
noun
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
- The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
verb
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) 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).
- (intransitive) 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).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
noun
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
adj
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
verb
noun
- the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
- an indirect suggestion
- a slight movement of the air
- a short respite
- the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
- A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
- (countable) A rest or pause.
- (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
- (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
verb
- exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
- To surrender (information); to confess.
- Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
- To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
- To make a noise like a cough.
- (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
noun
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
- (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2 sense 1).
- A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
- A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
intj
verb
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
noun
- the act of expelling air from the lungs
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- euphemistic expressions for death
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
- Any other (metaphorically comparable) cessation, extinction, or ending.
- Other similar release of volatile matter.
- That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
- (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; thus, synonym of death.
- (countable) A single outward breath.
prefix
verb
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- die from strangulation
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
noun
noun
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
name
noun
- (medicine) Ellipsis of mechanical ventilation.
- An exchange of views during a discussion.
- The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.
- The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
- The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air.
- The public exposure of an issue or topic.
- free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest
- the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air
- a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air
- the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
noun
- A respirator.
- A dust mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.
- A facial mask (cosmetic application).
- (medicine) A surgical mask.
- A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
- (American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
- (underwater diving) A diving mask.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- The state of being friends
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.
- state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat
- dull and pompous gravity
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being stuffy.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.
noun
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
- The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
noun
- the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
- an indirect suggestion
- a slight movement of the air
- a short respite
- the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
- A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
- (countable) A rest or pause.
- (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
- (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of expelling air from the lungs
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- euphemistic expressions for death
- (uncountable) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
- Any other (metaphorically comparable) cessation, extinction, or ending.
- Other similar release of volatile matter.
- That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
- (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; thus, synonym of death.
- (countable) A single outward breath.
noun
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
name
noun
- (medicine) Ellipsis of mechanical ventilation.
- An exchange of views during a discussion.
- The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.
- The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
- The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air.
- The public exposure of an issue or topic.
- free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest
- the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air
- a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air
- the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
noun
- A respirator.
- A dust mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.
- A facial mask (cosmetic application).
- (medicine) A surgical mask.
- A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
- (American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
- (underwater diving) A diving mask.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- form an impenetrable cover over
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
noun
verb
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
verb
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) 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).
- (intransitive) 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).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
noun
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
verb
noun
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
verb
- exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
- To surrender (information); to confess.
- Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
- To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
- To make a noise like a cough.
- (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
noun
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
- (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2 sense 1).
- A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
- A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
intj
verb
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- die from strangulation
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
noun
adj
adj
noun
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.