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CHOKE,

1. To stop the passage of the breath, by filling the windpipe or compressing the neck. The word is used to express a temporary or partial stoppage, as to choke with dirt or smoke or an entire stoppage that causes death to suffocate to strangle. Mark 5 .

2. To stop by filling to obstruct to block up as, to choke the entrance of a harbor, or any passage.

3. To hinder by obstruction or impediments to hinder or check growth, expansion, or progress as, to choke plants to choke the spreading of the fruit.

Thorns choke them. Matthew 13 . Luke 8 .

4. To smother or suffocate, as fire.

5. To suppress or stifle as, to choke the strong conception.

6. To offend to cause to take an exception as, I was choked at this word.

We observe that this word generally implies crowding, stuffing or covering. A channel is choked by stones and sand, but not by a boom.

CHOKE,

1. To have the wind-pipe stopped as, cattle are apt to choke when eating potatoes.

2. To be offended to take exceptions.

CHOKE, n. The filamentous or capillary part of the artichoke.