choke

Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.

The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.

to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;

Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden

And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.

A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.

Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

[…] the words choked in his throat.

A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;

Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.

[…] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]

‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.

The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.