Word Direct Answers

What does "choke" mean?

Choke: To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.
  2. 3.To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.
  3. 4.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.
  4. 5.To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
  5. 6.To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.
  6. 7.A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
  7. 8.(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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