Choke /(chōk)/

imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking

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.
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.
5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

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.

1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. The tied end of a cartridge. (Gun.)