<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>choked, choking</li><li>to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle</li><li>to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words</li><li>to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain</li><li>to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down): I managed to choke back my tears</li><li>to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture</li><li>to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal</li><li>to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor</li><li>Sports: to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>choked, choking</li><li>to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food</li><li>to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or sound of choking</li><li>a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped</li><li>Machinery: any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.</li><li>Electricity: choke coil</li><li>a narrowed part, as in a chokebore</li><li>the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: She choked up over the sadness of the tale</li><li>to become too tense or nervous to perform well: Our team began to choke up in the last inning</li><li>to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply</li></ul>