how to pronounce choke

/tʃəʊk/

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choke is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of choke in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… they might start to choke in their food …”

meaning of choke

Choke means to block the flow of air to the lungs by blocking the windpipe.

choke frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word choke occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics choke can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that choke can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;