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Choke (ch&ō;k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. &ā;ceocian 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.
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With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.
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2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.
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3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
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Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.
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4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. “I was choked at this word.” Swift.
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5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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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.
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2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
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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.
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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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