Choke — Defs

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

imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking

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.
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.
5.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

Phrases & compounds

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

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

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.

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

1.
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
2.
The tied end of a cartridge.(Gun.)