choking definition

  • adjective:
    • Causing a sense of becoming choked or suffocated: The hall was filled up with choking clouds of smoke.
    • Having a strained or husky sound: talked in a choking sound.
    • That chokes; producing the sensation of strangulation.
    • Indistinct in utterance, due to the fact voice of someone impacted with strong emotion.

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  • noun:
    • the procedure in which your airway becomes blocked, causing asphyxia in cases that are not addressed quickly.
    • The work of coughing when a foreign object (in other words. food, drinks) becomes lodged in an individual's airway.
    • an ailment brought on by preventing the airways towards lung area (just like meals or swelling associated with larynx)
    • the act of suffocating (somebody) by constricting the windpipe

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  • verb:
    • current participle of choke.
  • others:
    • Causing suffocation; looking after choke or suffocate.
    • Obstructed or indistinct in utterance; gasping: because, to consult a choking voice.

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