to render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.-to obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.-to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.-to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.-to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.-to have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.-to be checked, as if by choking; to stick.-a stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.-the tied end of a cartridge.-a constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.