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CHOKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stopped up; clogged up
Example:
streets choked with traffic
Synonyms:
choked; clogged
Classified under:
Similar:
obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb choke
Context examples:
They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds and plunged head first into the water.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A question about whether an individual chokes or has choked when swallowing.
(Choke When Swallowing, NCI Thesaurus)
He laughed until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Then I’ll wait in the open air, for I feel half choked,’ says he. ‘I’ll be back before long.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every road leading from London, as well as those from Guildford in the west and Tunbridge in the east, had contributed their stream of four-in-hands, gigs, and mounted sportsmen, until the whole broad Brighton highway was choked from ditch to ditch with a laughing, singing, shouting throng, all flowing in the same direction.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When he had travelled a few minutes it would begin a remorseless thump, thump, thump, and then leap up and away in a painful flutter of beats that choked him and made him go faint and dizzy.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Mrs. Jennings laughed again, but Elinor had not spirits to say more, and eager at all events to know what Willoughby had written, hurried away to their room, where, on opening the door, she saw Marianne stretched on the bed, almost choked by grief, one letter in her hand, and two or three others laying by her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And Martin, head on arms, thrilled at the picture he caught of himself, at that moment in the afternoon of long ago, when he reeled and panted and choked with the blood that ran into his mouth and down his throat from his cut lips; when he tottered toward Cheese-Face, spitting out a mouthful of blood so that he could speak, crying out that he would never quit, though Cheese-Face could give in if he wanted to.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was almost choked with the filthy stuff the monkey had crammed down my throat: but my dear little nurse picked it out of my mouth with a small needle, and then I fell a-vomiting, which gave me great relief.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
