Thesaurus: choke

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1. v. t. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
2. v. t. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
3. v. t. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
4. v. t. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
5. v. t. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
6. 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.
7. v. i. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
8. n. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
9. n. The tied end of a cartridge.
10. n. A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
11. n. a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
12. n. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine