Choke (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. aceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]

1.

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

2.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

Addison.

3.

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.

4.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

"I was choked at this word."

Swift.

5.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

 

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Choke, v. i.

1.

To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

2.

To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.

 

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Choke, n.

1.

A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

2. Gun. (a)

The tied end of a cartridge.

(b)

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

 

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