Choke

Definition:

  • (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.

Compare choke with other words:

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barrel vs. choke

choke vs. muzzle

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air vs. choke

choke vs. fuel

carburetor vs. choke

choke vs. tool

choke vs. pencil

brush vs. choke

choke vs. close

choke vs. tip

choke vs. finger

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choke vs. duct

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choke vs. windpipe

choke vs. obstruction

choke vs. unable

breathe vs. choke

choke vs. cloy

choke vs. masker

choke vs. throttle

choke vs. inductor