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choking   (TTS Sound)

The noun choking has 2 senses

• choking -- (a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx))


• choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling -- (the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused")

The verb choke has 14 senses

• choke -- (breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband")


• choke, gag, fret -- (be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat")


• choke, scrag -- (wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent")


• choke, strangle -- (constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing)


• gag, choke, strangle, suffocate -- (struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged")


• choke -- (fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience")


• choke -- (check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger")


• clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul -- (become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up")


• suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke -- (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children")


• suffocate, choke -- (become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village")


• suffocate, choke -- (suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him")


• die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it -- (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102")


• choke, throttle -- (reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor")


• gag, choke -- (cause to retch or choke)