Definition of choke

• 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.