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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Choke \Choke\ (ch[=o]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Choked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Choking}.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [=a]ceocian 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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
choked
adjective: stopped up; clogged up; "clogged pipes"; "clogged up freeways"; "streets choked with traffic" [syn: {clogged}]
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