choke

This here is the choke point: the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

I said, "What Abdurrahman did, the one he choked out, he's not just anyone in the gym.

For the first time I saw with my own eyes how someone chokes another person with a triangle and they lose consciousness.

I I'm sort of getting a little choked up here just thinking of what this man went through to put this plate of food in front of me right now.

According to legend, the beast was slain by the hero Bellerophon, who thrust a block of lead into its fiery throat, choking it.

The project involved adding a second shipping lane to part of the canal, and deepening and widening some of the choke points so larger ships could pass through.