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CHOKED
choked, clogged
(adjective) stopped up; clogged up; “clogged pipes”; “clogged up freeways”; “streets choked with traffic”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
choked
simple past tense and past participle of choke
Adjective
choked (comparative more choked, superlative most choked)
Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
(figurative) Blocked or obstructed by thick material, often plant growth.
Anagrams
• hocked
Source: Wiktionary
CHOKE
Choke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] Etym: [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. aceocian 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. "I was choked at this word." 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.
Choke, 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.
Choke, n.
1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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