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Part of a car to take one's breath away (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

choke

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'breath away' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'part of a car to take one's' is the wordplay.
'part of' indicates taking the first letters (I've seen 'part' mean this).
'to take' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one's' becomes 'hoke' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The first letter of 'car' is 'c'.
'c'+'hoke'='CHOKE'

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(Other definitions for choke that I've seen before include "Be unable to breathe" , "Have difficulty breathing" , "clog" , "cause congestion" , "Have breathing obstructed - carburettor valve" .)

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