Definition of Choke

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Definition of Choke

Choke

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

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

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

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

The tied end of a cartridge.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

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Choke Quotations

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
Arthur Ashe

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
Alec Baldwin

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
John Lee Hooker

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
Liam Neeson

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
June Jordan

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.
David Gest

Choke Translations

choke in Afrikaans is onderdruk
choke in Dutch is choken, wurgen, worgen
choke in Finnish is tukehduttaa
choke in Italian is tordo, affogare
choke in Latin is suffoco
choke in Norwegian is kvele
choke in Portuguese is bloqueador
choke in Spanish is sofocar, estrangular

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