Past tense of choke
regular verb
The past tense of choke is choked. The past participle is also choked.
Forms of choke
| Base form (V1) | choke /t͡ʃəʊk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | choked /tʃəʊkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | choked /tʃəʊkt/ |
| Present participle | choking /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | chokes /tʃəʊks/ |
Choked in a sentence
- Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
- But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492
- The casserole was half-baked, but I choked it down anyway to be polite.From the entry half-baked
- He had a cutting retort on the tip of his tongue, but he choked it back.From the entry choke back
- I told him what happened, but he choked on the truth.From the entry choke on
Meaning of choke
- verb To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
- verb To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- verb To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
Questions about the past tense of choke
- What is the past tense of choke?
- The past tense of choke is choked.
- What is the past participle of choke?
- The past participle of choke is choked.
- Is choke a regular or irregular verb?
- Choke is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: choke (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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