Found 2 hits - Term: choked, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
choke \choke\ ch=ok, v. t. imp. p. p. choked; p. pr.
vb. n. choking. oe. cheken, choken; cf. as. =aceocian
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.
1913 webster
with eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
--shak.
1913 webster
2. to obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
block up. --addison.
1913 webster
3. to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.;
to stifle.
1913 webster
oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --dryden.
1913 webster
4. to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or
strong feeling. "i was choked at this word." --swift.
1913 webster
5. to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the
barrel of a shotgun.
1913 webster
to choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a
purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
1913 webster
see also:
choked choking to choke off
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
choked
adj : stopped up; clogged up; "clogged pipes"; "clogged up
freeways"; "streets choked with traffic" syn: clogged
see also:
clogged
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