chokev. t.[OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]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.(Addison.)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.(Swift.)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.()v. i.1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.()2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.()The words choked in his throat. (Sir W. Scott.)n.1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.()2. (Gun.) The tied end of a cartridge.()