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."
2.To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
3.To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. "Oats and darnel choke the rising corn."
4.To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word."
5.To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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