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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Choking \Chok"ing\, a. 1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation. 2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Choke \Choke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choked}; p. pr & vb n. {Choking}.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf AS [=a]ceocian 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. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up --Addison. 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden. 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. ``I was choked at this word.'' --Swift. 5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. {To choke off}, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as to choke off a speaker by uproar. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: choking adj : causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: {smothering}, {suffocating}, {suffocative}] n 1: a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) 2: the act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: {strangling}, {strangulation}, {throttling}]
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