View source for choke

{{Woodhouse1
|Text=[[File:p2.png|right|Woodhouse page for {{PAGENAME}} - Opens in new window|link={{filepath:woodhouse_131.jpg}}]]
===verb transitive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἄγχειν]], [[ἀπάγχειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀποπνίγειν]], [[πνίγειν]].

[[fill]]: see [[fill]].

[[the vast expanse of heaven was choked withal]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἐν δ' ἐμεστώθη μέγας αἰθήρ]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Antigone]]'' 420).

[[choke up a stream]], etc.: [[prose|P.]] [[καταχωννύναι]]; see [[silt up]].
}}