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The Meaning of choke
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(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
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(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
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(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
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(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
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(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
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(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.
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(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Synonyms
choke coil
,
choking coil
,
go
,
perish
,
asphyxiate
,
drop dead
,
conk
,
croak
,
clog up
,
decease
,
gag
,
pass away
,
cash in one's chips
,
fret
,
congest
,
kick the bucket
,
throttle
,
give-up the ghost
,
clog
,
exit
,
choke off
,
pop off
,
buy the farm
,
pass
,
suffocate
,
die
,
foul
,
stifle
,
expire
,
snuff it
,
back up
,
strangle
,
scrag
,
muzzle
,
rub
,
rankle
,
eat away
,
eat into
,
erode
,
chafe
,
quip
,
scratch
,
heave
,
fuss
,
niggle
,
gall
,
grate
,
retch
,
fray
,
garrote
,
garotte
,
garrotte
,
repress
,
halter
,
strangulate
,
hamper
,
cramp
,
smother
,
muffle
,
contaminate
,
clot
,
support
,
befoul
,
back
,
defile
,
maculate
,
back down
,
choke down
,
constipate
,
back off
,
pollute
,
overload
,
choke back
,
dampen
,
fall
,
function
,
come about
,
murmur
,
give way
,
elapse
,
hold out
,
pass out
,
run
,
go past
,
lead
,
top
,
give out
,
put across
,
go by
,
devolve
,
conk out
,
operate
,
cronk
,
travel
,
occur
,
last
,
fade
,
go away
,
excrete
,
reach
,
move
,
spend
,
rifle
,
slide by
,
breathe out
,
turn over
,
run low
,
die out
,
plump
,
legislate
,
happen
,
egest
,
authorise
,
exceed
,
fleet
,
get out
,
overstep
,
endure
,
give
,
draw
,
make it
,
blend in
,
run short
,
get going
,
locomote
,
make pass
,
grumble
,
slip away
,
authorize
,
live
,
return
,
blend
,
go out
,
fail
,
fall out
,
hap
,
slip by
,
go on
,
sink
,
eliminate
,
lapse
,
belong
,
mutter
,
pass off
,
go bad
,
become flat
,
survive
,
blow over
,
get
,
take place
,
overhaul
,
become
,
go through
,
evanesce
,
live on
,
communicate
,
hand
,
run out
,
swoon
,
fit
,
go across
,
sound
,
overtake
,
transcend
,
glide by
,
gnarl
,
exhale
,
extend
,
start
,
depart
,
faint
,
pall
,
proceed
,
break down
,
clear
,
stall
,
travel by
,
hold up
,
pass along
,
break
,
go along
,
surpass
,
guide
,
pass by
,
leave
,
work
,
pass on
,
restrict
,
trammel
,
confine
,
restrain
,
bound
,
limit
,
obstruct
,
arrest
,
check
,
embarrass
,
interrupt
,
stay
,
bar
,
hinder
,
oppose
,
stop
,
barricade
,
impede
,
retard
Antonyms
accelerate
,
aid
,
facilitate
,
free
,
open
,
promote
,
advance
,
clear
,
forward
,
further
,
pave the way for
Rhymes
artichoke
,
awoke
,
backstroke
,
baroque
,
bloke
,
boak
,
boake
,
boeck
,
boeke
,
bouck
,
broke
,
cloak
,
cloke
,
coke
,
countryfolk
,
croak
,
croke
,
doak
,
doke
,
droke
,
evoke
,
folk
,
goecke
,
goeke
,
gohlke
,
hoek
,
hoke
,
holyoke
,
invoke
,
joke
,
keystroke
,
knoke
,
koch
,
koke
,
kolk
,
larocque
,
laroque
,
misspoke
,
moacq
,
moak
,
moke
,
noack
,
oak
,
poke
,
polk
,
provoke
,
revoke
,
roanoke
,
roque
,
schmoke
,
schoeck
,
schroeck
,
scoke
,
sloke
,
slowpoke
,
smoak
,
smoke
,
snoke
,
soak
,
spoke
,
stoke
,
stroke
,
szoke
,
townsfolk
,
windhoek
,
woke
,
wolk
,
wouk
,
yoak
,
yoke
,
yolk