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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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choke


choke is a   Verb

Definition:

[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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