Hypertext Webster Gateway: "choking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Choking \Chok"ing\, a.
1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected
with strong emotion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Choke \Choke\, 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.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
--Shak.
2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
block up. --Addison.
3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.;
to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden.
4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or
strong feeling. ``I was choked at this word.'' --Swift.
5. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
choking
adj : causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of
fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June
dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat";
"the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: {smothering},
{suffocating}, {suffocative}]
n 1: a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as
with food or swelling of the larynx)
2: the act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe; "no
evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: {strangling},
{strangulation}, {throttling}]
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