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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke..
Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.
Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.
In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.
His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.
Use chokingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chokingly means While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.
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