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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.

Choke, v. i. 1.
To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat,
caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be
strangled.

2. To be checked, as if by choking; to
stick.

The words choked in his throat.

Sir W. Scott.

Choke, n. 1. A
stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of
strangulation.


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