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Check or slow down the action or effect of
Answer for the clue "Check or slow down the action or effect of ", 7 letters:
choking
Alternative clues for the word choking
- Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- Wring the neck of
- Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- A condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- The act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe
- Reduce the air supply
- Die (colloquial)
- Be too tight
Word definitions for choking in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; ...
Usage examples of choking.
A sudden, agonizing fiery ball of pain shot through him, choking his words, making him stagger slightly.
Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.
For several moments he and Basel managed to exchange formulaic pleasantries without once choking on them.
Abruptly she tilted lifted the cup to her mouth unsteadily and gulped the contents, choking and coughing, then thrust it out toward Bayle for more.
The tears were choking her: I went to the window so as to let her cry without restraint: a few minutes after, I came back and I sat down by her.
The Lady Sabina then, choking back her tears, stood straight in the coffle, the posture accentuating the lovely lines of her chained beauty.
Completely successful, it could have turned most of the London or New York of that time, after some clamour and running and writhing and choking, into a cityful of distorted corpses.
It became a creeping disease of the body, enfeebling every function, choking, suffocating.
Hurling myself through the aperture I reached the garden, but a hundred feet from where the black was choking the life from my Dejah Thoris, and with a single great bound I was upon him.
She rose to her feet and seemed to be choking, but the awful thing was that she was so quiet about it all.
Dogtails and Hard Fescue, Fiorin and Clover, not to mention Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass and Perennial Rye Grass grew where it had no business to grow at all thrusting through the cobblestones of the streets, choking the harbors and running riot across the dunes of Ostend and Scheveningen.
I knew in my dream I was going all sole alone on a frightsome road all sprinkled over with ashes and bones, and I that crawly in my back I could feel the backbone of me wiggling up and down like a caterpillar, so my heart was choking in my throat with the fear of it.
Water rushed in through her mouth and nose, choking, gagging, sweeping with a cold weight into her chest.
They stood for a while quite silent, and when at last the stillness was broken, it was Gascoyne who spoke, in a choking voice.
A selectively permeable membrane, it would pass the right gasses in and out until the composition of the air was- was- Svetz was choking, tearing at the sac.