[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.", "to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling:The sudden wind choked his words.", "to stop by filling; obstruct; clog:Grease choked the drain.Synonyms: plug , dam , block", "to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed bybackordown):I managed to choke back my tears.", "to fill chock-full:The storeroom was choked with furniture.", "to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.", "to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.", "Sports.to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed byup)."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating:He choked on a piece of food.", "to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped:The words choked in her throat."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or sound of choking.", "a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.", "Machinery.any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.", "Electricity. choke coil choke coil.", "a narrowed part, as in a chokebore .", "the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress:She choked up over the sadness of the tale.to become too tense or nervous to perform well:Our team began to choke up in the last inning.", "to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress:She choked up over the sadness of the tale.", "to become too tense or nervous to perform well:Our team began to choke up in the last inning.", "to stop or obstruct by or as by choking:to choke off a nation's fuel supply."]}]