Difference between Suffocate and Choke

What is the difference between Suffocate and Choke?

Suffocate as a verb is to suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. while Choke as a verb is to be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way

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.

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 wayTo 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: Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

We hope you now know whether to use Suffocate or Choke in your sentence.

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