CHOKE

choke. Choke, v.t. to stop the windpipe, block up, hinder, overpower

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Choke (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [[OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. āceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]] 1. 1. 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. 2. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.
3. 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden. 4. 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. “I was choked at this word.” Swift.
5. 5. 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.