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Meaning Of Choke
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.
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