choking

Plural: chokings

Noun

• a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
  • "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
• The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
• The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
• The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Verb

Verb Forms: choke, choked, choking, chokes

• Having difficulty breathing; filling something to capacity.
• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
• be too tight; rub or press
  • "This neckband is choking the cat"
• wring the neck of
• constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
• fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
• check or slow down the action or effect of
• become or cause to become obstructed
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
• become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
• suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• reduce the air supply
• cause to retch or choke
• present participle and gerund of choke

Adjective

• Causing a feeling of constriction or suffocation.

Examples

• She was choking on a missed opportunity to play a seven-letter word.
• The tension in the final Scrabble round was palpable and utterly choking.

Synonyms

asphyxiate, back up, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, foul, fret, gag, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, scrag, snuff it, stifle, strangle, strangling, strangulation, suffocate, throttle, throttling

Antonyms

be born, unclog

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