Crossword clues for choked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choke \Choke\ (ch[=o]k), v. t. [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.]
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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. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
--Addison.-
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
--Dryden. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. ``I was choked at this word.''
--Swift.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: choke)
WordNet
adj. stopped up; clogged up; "clogged pipes"; "clogged up freeways"; "streets choked with traffic" [syn: clogged]
Usage examples of "choked".
Windsor cried out and struggled, and Per rode him and choked him, setting the point of the dagger back at his neck.
With an uprush of feeling that choked her, she realized with what deep longing she wanted central heating and inner-spring mattresses, supermarkets and intensive care, microwave pizzas and noisy, crowded, polluted cities where you could go out alone for the day without needing a troop of friends, all armed to the teeth, to ensure that you got home again.
Then she heard another sound: a choked, grunting, coughing sound that, when she realized what it was, made the pain in her heart well-nigh unbearable.
Thork choked out insultingly with a quick sweep of his hand toward her small, pert breasts.
Ruby got her first close-up look at Thork and choked back her laughter.
Ruby almost choked when the heavyset cook bent over, revealing numerous nicks on her hairless legs.
He rolled on to his back, gasped, choked and sucked in the life-giving sweetness.
On the first attempt she spilled most of it over her chest, then choked and gasped on what remained in the copper dipper.
She choked and coughed at the sting of the liquor, but then a marvelous glow spread through her, to her toes and fingertips.
Jim choked on the tart, then looked shamefaced and at a loss for words.
The smoke choked them, the sweat ran into their eyes, and the gunfire deafened and dazed them.
Dorian stared at him in horrified disbelief, and Yasmini choked back her sobs: her brothers and other kin must be among the dead.
Batula held the waters king to his mouth, and Kadem choked and gasped as he drank.
Kadem named the merchant in Zanzibar who had given him this information, before the life was choked out of him by the garotte.
With the inflow choked off they were able to dry out the hull within a few hours.