Choke

Choke - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
  
  
• (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
  
  
• (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
  
  
• (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
  
  
• (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
  
  
• (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
  
  
• (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
  
  
• (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
  
  
• (n.) The tied end of a cartridge.
  
  
• (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
  
  
• damp () See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
  
  
• pear () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
  
  
• pear () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.