Congested vs Choked - What's the difference?
congested | choked |
(congest)
(Ireland'', ''Scotland ) a tenant living on land whose resources do not support him adequately.
* 1937 , (Richard Walsh) constituency of South Mayo,
(choke)
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
* Shakespeare
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
* Dryden
(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
* Sir Walter Scott
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
* Jonathan Swift
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
As verbs the difference between congested and choked
is that congested is past tense of congest while choked is past tense of choke.congested
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Verb
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*congest
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Noun
(en noun)- The large farmer's land was divided among adjoining congests .
Dáil Éireann - 21 April, 1937: Acquisition of Mayo Lands for Relief of Congestion.
- Mr. Walsh asked the Minister for Lands...if he will state the cause of the delay in having these lands divided amongst local congests .
choked
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Verb
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*choke
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
(chok)- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
- (Addison)
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
- The words choked in his throat.
- I was choked at this word.