choking
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choking
- /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/ UK
- /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊkɪŋ
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, choke + -ing.
noun chokings
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe. Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and choking
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation. She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered.
- The result of something being choked. This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.
verb
- present participle and gerund of choke
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: suffocative, smothering, suffocating, strangulation, strangling, breathless, throttling, asphyxiation, stifling, crushing, asphyxia, suffocation, asphyxiating, gagging, plugging, garroting
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noun obstruction of the flow of air into the lungs
| Español | ahogo |
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| Deutsch | Ersticken, Erstickung |
| Ελληνικά | πνιγμονή pnigmoní, πνίξιμο pníximo |
noun act of strangulation by hands or means, except hanging
| Deutsch | Würgen, Strangulation |
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noun act of strangulation to death
| Deutsch | Erdrosseln, Erwürgen |
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title = {choking},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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