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To block or clog up a space or opening
“Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
To experience an obstuction of one's windpipe
“But, just hours after she left, Wainwright called emergency services in a panic, saying Joshua had choked on his own vomit and had stopped breathing.”
To die or cause to die from a lack of air, or an inability to breathe
“The tilapia's numerous small bones can choke its predators, even the egret, which can swallow all other fish.”
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling
To cause (a person or animal) to choke
“They choked him with his tie.”
Make narrower, especially by encircling pressure
To supply or fill to excess
To pant or breathe hard or with difficulty
To stop talking, to shut up
To exceed or cross a given limit
Make husky, squawking noise
To extinguish (a candle or flame)
To consume a liquid
To consume food hungrily or in a gluttonous manner
To overwhelm with emotion
To prevent from progress
To perform a task incompetently
To spread or pervade throughout
To remove or take out, especially with effort or force
To force (something) into or through a restricted space
Obligate to do something
Complete power or control over a person or situation
An electric coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase
A convulsive catching of breath
A large mouthful of liquid hastily drunk
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