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CHOKE, v.t.
CHOKE, v.i.
CHOKE, n. The filamentous or capillary part of the artichoke.
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. To obstruct by filling up or clogging
any passage; to block up.
Addison. To hinder or check, as growth,
expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. To affect with a sense of
strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
"I was
choked at this word." Swift. 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. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat,
caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be
strangled.
To be checked, as if by choking; to
stick.
The words choked in his throat. A
stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of
strangulation.
The
tied end of a cartridge.
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