Choked

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
     1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or
        squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to
        strangle.


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              With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
        block up. --Addison.
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     3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.;
        to stifle.
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              Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden.
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     4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or
        strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." --Swift.
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     5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the
        barrel of a shotgun.
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     {To choke off}, to stop a person in the execution of a
        purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  choked
       adj : stopped up; clogged up; "clogged pipes"; "clogged up
             freeways"; "streets choked with traffic" [syn: {clogged}]