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
• plural of choking

Verb

• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
• be too tight; rub or press
• 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

Synonyms

asphyxiate, back up, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, choke off, choking, 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