Choke word meaning and definition

[noun] a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
[noun] a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
[verb] breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
[verb] cause to retch or choke
[verb] struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
[verb] constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
[verb] reduce the air supply; of carburetors
[verb] die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
[verb] suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
[verb] become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
[verb] impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
[verb] become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
[verb] be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
[verb] wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
[verb] check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"
[verb] fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

\Choke\, 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. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison. 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden. 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. ``I was choked at this word.'' --Swift. 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.
\Choke\, v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. 2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. --Sir W. Scott.
\Choke\, n. 1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. 2. (Gun.)
(a) The tied end of a cartridge.
(b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

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