Crossword clues for choking
choking
- Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- Wring the neck of
- Rub or press
- Be too tight
- Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- The act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe
- A condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- Struggle for breath
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choking \Chok"ing\, a.
That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
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.]
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
--Shak. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
--Addison.-
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
--Dryden. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. ``I was choked at this word.''
--Swift.-
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. 2 The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway. vb. (present participle of choke English)
WordNet
n. a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: strangling, strangulation, throttling]
Wikipedia
Choking is the mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs. Choking prevents breathing, and can be partial or complete, with partial choking allowing some, although inadequate, flow of air into the lungs. Prolonged or complete choking results in asphyxia which leads to anoxia and is potentially fatal. Oxygen stored in the blood and lungs can keep a person alive for several minutes after breathing stops.
Choking can be caused by:
- Physical obstruction of the airway by a foreign body.
- Respiratory diseases that involve obstruction of the airway.
- Compression of the laryngopharynx, larynx or vertebrate trachea in strangulation.
- Laryngospasm, a temporary closing of the vocal cords, which simulates the feeling of choking.
Obstruction of the airway can occur at the level of the pharynx or the trachea. Foods that can adapt their shape to that of the pharynx (such as bananas, marshmallows, or gelatinous candies) can be a danger not just for children but for persons of any age.
Choking due to a foreign object resulted in 162,000 deaths in 2013 up from 140,000 deaths in 1990.
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.