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   Choke (chōk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. āceocian 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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