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Noun choking has 2 senses
- choking - a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
--1 is a kind of disorder, upset
- choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling - the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
--2 is a kind of suffocation, asphyxiation
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"
--1 is one way to breathe, take a breath, respire, suspire
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- choke, gag, fret - be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
--2 is one way to compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
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- choke, scrag - wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
--3 is one way to compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
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- choke, strangle - constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
--4 is one way to compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
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- gag, choke, strangle, suffocate - struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
--5 is one way to suffer, hurt
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- 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"
--6 is one way to fail, neglect
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- choke - check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"
--7 is one way to bottle up, suppress
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- 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"
--8 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
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- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
--9 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
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- suffocate, choke - become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
--10 is one way to become, turn
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- suffocate, choke - suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
--11 is one way to stifle, dampen
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- kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it - die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
--12 is one way to die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
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- choke, throttle - reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"
--13 is one way to enrich
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- gag, choke - cause to retch or choke
--14 is one way to sicken
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