Choke
Choke (chōk) , transitive verb
[Old English cheken, choken; compare Anglo-Saxon āceocian to suffocate, Icelandic koka to gulp, English 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.
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.
4.
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
I was choked at this word.
5.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
Collocations (1)
To choke off , to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Choke , intransitive verb
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.
Choke , noun
1.
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
2.
(a) (Gunnery) The tied end of a cartridge.
(b)
(Gunnery) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.