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