breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life |
cause to retch or choke | disappear or come to an end |
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) |
constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | stop operating or functioning |
reduce the air supply | lose sparkle or bouquet |
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player |
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | cut or shape with a die |
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame |
be too tight; rub or press | languish as with love or desire |
become or cause to become obstructed | feel indifferent towards |
wring the neck of | suffer or face the pain of death |
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | |
check or slow down the action or effect of | |
fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | |