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The 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.

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