Choke v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.]
 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
    With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.   --Shak.
 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
 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.”
 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.