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.
Usage examples of "to choke off".
This would require dramatically altering the sanctions to choke off the smuggling to Iraq, finding a way to restore the inspectors to Iraq and allow them to do their job for as long as it takes, restructuring the U.
If they want to choke off their newly discovered gold supply, that is.
She moved back against the railing, her hand going to her mouth to choke off a scream.
Letting out a cry, she gripped her leg in an attempt to choke off the sharp pain.
When he opened the door, Maria all but ran into him, only to choke off a muffled curse and half a sob when she saw that it was him in the doorway.
Just being in the same room with Lara was enough to choke off the blood supply to his head.
Kahlan stared at them for a moment as horror threatened to choke off her breath.
If I combined two moves or three, appendages flowed away from eliminated options and grew up to choke off new avenues of escape.