Causing suffocation; tending to choke or suffocate.

Obstructed or indistinct in utterance; gasping: as, to speak with a choking voice.

adjective. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

adjective. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

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

noun. The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.

verb. Present participle of choke.

noun. a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

noun. the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

"One attendant, on the very day he had been discharged for choking a patient into an insensibility so profound that it had been necessary to call a physician to restore him, said to me, "They are getting pretty damned strict these days, discharging a man simply for _choking_ a patient.""

asphyxiation  disorder  suffocation  upset  

antismoking  broking  cloaking  coking  croaking  

abolishment  abolition  annihilation  annulment  asphyxia  

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