Choke
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold. In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way To prevent someone from breathing by strangling them. To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning. Of a cave passage, to be partly or completely blocked by boulders, mud etc.
Example sentence: You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
Foul
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.Ugly; homely; poor.Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make dirty.To besmirch.To clog or obstruct.To entangle.To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.To hit outside of the baselines.To become clogged.To become entangled.To commit a foul.To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
Example sentence: When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.