CHOKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does choked mean? 

• CHOKED (adjective)
  The adjective CHOKED has 1 sense:

1. stopped up; clogged up

  Familiarity information: CHOKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stopped up; clogged up

Synonyms:

choked; clogged

Context example:

streets choked with traffic

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

 Context examples 

That association led paleontologists to believe that the world's best-preserved fossil collections came from choked oceans.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

His jaws closed on the hand, nor did they relax till his senses were choked out of him once more.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"I am willing to be patient in all things that are reasonable; but in this—this desecration of the grave—of one who—" He fairly choked with indignation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Chanticleer ran as fast as he could to the river, and said, “River, give me some water, for Partlet lies in the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Also of thinking that Jip once barked in the distance, and was instantly choked by somebody.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He says that hunting season for the Norse would have been short, as seas were choked with ice for much of the year.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Come, eat something," she said; but I put both away from me, feeling as if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amy, who was fond of delicate fare, took a heaping spoonful, choked, hid her face in her napkin, and left the table precipitately.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)