To sob with convulsions.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To check; to reprimand.
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Conspicuously short.
Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.