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: Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Suffocate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body.To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen.To cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body.To kill a person or creature by depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake.To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen.