choke
choke is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.
- 2.To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.
- 3.To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.
- 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.
- 5.To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
- 6.To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.
- 7.A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
- 8.(Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alley
- bar
- blind
- block
- blockade
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- clinch
- close
- closure
- constipation
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- impenetrable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
- impervious
- imporous
- infarction
- invious
- keddah
- obstipation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is choke.
- What is to obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison called?
- What is to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden called?
- What is to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled called?
- What is to be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott called?
- What is a stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation called?
- What is (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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