CHOKE Copy link • CHOKETR., animam or gpiritum intercludere (to stop the breath violently): suffocare (to kill by closing the organs of respiration, whether by an internal obstacle [quem crassior saliva suffocat. Sen.] or by external means): [alicui elidere spiritum, or (poetically) fauces, or collum, is to kill by external pressure on the throat: to throttle, strangulare, with a cord, etc.] INTR. suffocari: spiritu intercluso exstingui: by anything, *aliqua re suffocare. IMPROPR., suffocare: strangulare (to bind too tight, and so deprive of nourishment, e.g., trees): exstinguere: restinguere: auferre: tollere. Fear chokes his voice, metus vocem praecludit. Block up, obturare: obstruere. Vid: OBSTRUCT.