choke
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choke.XX:
choke.01 "to have or cause to have difficulty in breathing":
choke.02 "to fill up completely, jam":
choke.03 "to bring to an end":
choke.XX
- *-1 Asked *-2 *-3 to say a few words , he pulls out his crumpled piece of paper and tries *-1 to talk , but he 's too [rel choked] up 0 *T*-4 to get the words out .
choke.01 sub-ARG0 obj-ARG1
- Instead , the tests will focus heavily on new blends of gasoline , which *T*-1 are still undeveloped but which the petroleum industry has been touting *T*-3 as a solution for [ARG0 automobile pollution] that *T*-2 is [rel choking] [ARG1 urban areas] .
- Why , he used *-1 to lay in wait for Cap ; [ARGM-TMP suddenly] [ARG0 he] [ARGM-MOD 'd] leap from behind some statue of Marshall onto Cap 's chest and grab him by the throat and [rel choke] [ARG1 him] [ARGM-TMP till he coughed up an additional $ 2 billion *U* or so] .
choke.01 NP-ARG1 NP-ARG2-on
- They also chart the evolution of a city that *T*-1 has grown tenfold in the author 's lifetime , from a colonial outpost of fez-wearing pashas to [ARG1 a Third World slum] [rel choking] on [ARG2-on its own refuse] .
choke.02 sub-ARG0 obj-ARG1
- This is no place for pedestrians , but at 7:30 on [ARGM-TMP a recent morning] , when [ARG0 construction] [rel choked] [ARG1 traffic at the famous Four Corners intersection] [ARGM-PRD to one lane] *T*-1 , a taxi passenger found it *EXP*-2 faster * to abandon the cab and walk to her destination .
- [ARG0 Foreign lending] has been virtually suspended *-1 since then , *-1 [rel choking] [ARG1 liquidity] and hobbling many projects .
choke.03 sub-ARG0 obj-ARG1
- *-3 Fending off attacks on his economic policies in a House of Commons debate yesterday , Mr. Lawson said 0 inflation `` remains the greatest threat to our economic well-being '' and promised *-3 to take `` whatever steps *T*-2 are needed *-1 '' [ARG0 *] to [rel choke] [ARG1 it] off .