'Choking' definitions:
Definition of 'choking'
(from WordNet)
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; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling]
Definition of 'Choking'
From: GCIDE
- Choke \Choke\ (ch[=o]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [=a]ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]
- 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. [1913 Webster]
- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. [1913 Webster]
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. [1913 Webster]
- To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Choking'
From: GCIDE
- Choking \Chok"ing\, a.
- 1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
Synonyms of 'choking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- asphyxia,
- asphyxiation,
- bar,
- barrier,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blurred,
- bottleneck,
- breathy,
- burking,
- burning out,
- burnout,
- cecum,
- choke,
- choked,
- choking off,
- clog,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- controlling,
- costiveness,
- counterproductive,
- croaking,
- crosswise,
- cul-de-sac,
- damping,
- dead end,
- deracination,
- dousing,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- drowning,
- dying,
- dysphonic,
- elimination,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- eradication,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fire fighting,
- flame-out,
- garrote,
- going out,
- gorge,
- guttural,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- hoarse,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- in the way,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- jam,
- killing,
- liquidation,
- lisping,
- liver death,
- megadeath,
- mispronounced,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- negation,
- nullification,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- purge,
- putting out,
- quashing,
- quavering,
- quenching,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- rooting out,
- sealing off,
- serum death,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- silencing,
- smotheration,
- smothering,
- snuffing,
- snuffing out,
- snuffling,
- squashing,
- squelching,
- starvation,
- stifled,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strangled,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- suppression,
- suppressive,
- thick,
- throaty,
- throttling,
- tremulous,
- troublesome,
- twangy,
- uprooting,
- velar,
- violent death,
- voiding,
- watery grave
Words containing 'Choking'
- Choke,
- Choked,
- To choke off,
- choke down,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- Choke damp,
- Choke pear,
- Choke pondweed,
- Choking coil,
- automatic choke,
- choke back,
- choke coil,
- choke hold,
- Choke-full,
- Choke-strap,
- chockablockpredicate chock-fullpredicate chockfullpredicate chockfulpredicate choke-fullpredicate chuck-fullpredicate cram full