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.

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