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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