(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.
