Choking

Quick meaning: Choking is a noun meaning The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.

Meaning

The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.

More Meanings

1. The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
2. The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
3. The result of something being choked.
4. present participle and gerund of choke

Example Sentences

Choking occurs when the respiratory passage in the throat or windpipe is blocked.

The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons.

The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time.

This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women.

Word Forms

• chokings

Synonyms for choking

Depending on context, synonyms include smothering, breathless, strangling, strangulation, suffocating, throttling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suffocative, smothering, suffocating, strangulation, strangling, breathless.

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