Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing suffocation; tending to choke or suffocate.
- Obstructed or indistinct in utterance; gasping: as, to speak with a choking voice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
- adjective Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process in which a person's
airway becomes blocked, resulting inasphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. - noun The act of
coughing when a foreign object (i.e.food ,beverages ) becomes lodged in a person's airway. - verb Present participle of
choke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- noun the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
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Examples
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One attendant, on the very day he had been discharged for choking a patient into an insensibility so profound that it had been necessary to call a physician to restore him, said to me, "They are getting pretty damned strict these days, discharging a man simply for _choking_ a patient."
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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In some cases, choking is just a question of not being good enough.
What Happens Under Pressure Philip Delves Broughton 2010
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Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans.
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Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans.
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This occurrence, called aspiration, may result in choking, coughing and difficulty breathing.
Foreign Objects 2010
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Once with our longest and largest kitchen knife and then almost suceeded in choking me to death in my sleep.
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"They call it choking," three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe said.
USATODAY.com - Federer earns Wimbledon semis clash with Hewitt 2005
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