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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing suffocation; tending to choke or suffocate.
- Obstructed or indistinct in utterance; gasping: as, to speak with a choking voice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
- adjective Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process in which a person's
airway becomes blocked, resulting inasphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. - noun The act of
coughing when a foreign object (i.e.food ,beverages ) becomes lodged in a person's airway. - verb Present participle of
choke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- noun the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
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Examples
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One attendant, on the very day he had been discharged for choking a patient into an insensibility so profound that it had been necessary to call a physician to restore him, said to me, "They are getting pretty damned strict these days, discharging a man simply for _choking_ a patient."
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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In some cases, choking is just a question of not being good enough.
What Happens Under Pressure Philip Delves Broughton 2010
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Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans.
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Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans.
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This occurrence, called aspiration, may result in choking, coughing and difficulty breathing.
Foreign Objects 2010
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Once with our longest and largest kitchen knife and then almost suceeded in choking me to death in my sleep.
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"They call it choking," three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe said.
USATODAY.com - Federer earns Wimbledon semis clash with Hewitt 2005
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synonyms (134)
Words with the same meaning
- abolishment
- abolition
- annihilation
- annulment
- asphyxia
- asphyxiation
- bar
- barrier
- blank wall
- blind alley
- blind gut
- block
- blockade
- blockage
- blurred
- bottleneck
- breathy
- burking
- burning out
- burnout
- cecum
- choke
- choked
- choking off
- clog
- congestion
- constipation
- constrictive
- contrary
- controlling
- costiveness
- counterproductive
- croaking
- crosswise
- cul-de-sac
- damping
- dead end
- deracination
- dousing
- drawling
- drawly
- drowning
- dying
- dysphonic
- elimination
- embolism
- embolus
- eradication
- extermination
- extinction
- extinguishment
- extirpation
- fire fighting
- flame-out
- garrote
- going out
- gorge
- guttural
- harsh
- hawking
- hindering
- hindersome
- hoarse
- impasse
- impediment
- in the way
- inarticulate
- indistinct
- infarct
- infarction
- inhibiting
- inhibitive
- interrupting
- interruptive
- jam
- killing
- liquidation
- lisping
- liver death
- megadeath
- mispronounced
- muzzy
- nasal
- negation
- nullification
- obstacle
- obstipation
- obstructing
- obstruction
- obstructive
- obstruent
- occlusive
- purge
- putting out
- quashing
- quavering
- quenching
- repressive
- restrictive
- rooting out
- sealing off
- serum death
- shaking
- shaky
- silencing
- smotheration
- smothering
- snuffing
- snuffing out
- snuffling
- squashing
- squelching
- starvation
- stifled
- stifling
- stop
- stoppage
- strangled
- strangling
- strangulation
- suffocation
- suppression
- suppressive
- thick
- throaty
- throttling
- tremulous
- troublesome
- twangy
- uprooting
- velar
- violent death
- voiding
- watery grave
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