choke

How to sign: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
"She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband";

Categories: breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath

choke

How to sign: become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up";

Similiar / Same: clog, clog up, congest, choke off, foul, back up

Categories: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude

Within this category: crap up, gum up, silt up, stuff

choke

How to sign: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

Similiar / Same: strangle

Categories: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze

choke

How to sign: die
"The old man finally kicked the bucket";

Similiar / Same: kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, drop dead, croak, snuff it, pop off, conk

Categories: decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, pass away, perish

choke

How to sign: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

Categories: valve

Within this category: automatic choke

choke

How to sign: cause to retch or choke

Similiar / Same: gag

Categories: sicken