Definitions for choking

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choking chok·ing

Spelling: [choh-king]

IPA: /ˈtʃoʊ kɪŋ/

Choking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in choking (cghikno).

Definitions for choking

noun

1. the act or sound of choking.
2. a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
3. Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
4. Electricity. choke coil.
5. a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
6. the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.

adjective

1. (of the voice) husky and strained, especially because of emotion.
2. causing the feeling of being choked:

Verb phrases

1. choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking:
2. choke up, to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: to become too tense or nervous to perform well:

verb (used with object)

1. to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
2. to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling:
3. to stop by filling; obstruct; clog:
4. to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down):
5. to fill chock-full:
6. to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
7. to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
8. Sports. to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up).

verb (used without object)

1. to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating:
2. to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped:

Origin of choking

choke + -ing²

Examples for choking

“Raising the Turkish flag was very healing for me, and I think a little for Turkey as well,” says Hayes, choking up a bit.

We see a system that will indict a 20-year-old for selling crack but not a police officer for choking the life out of a citizen.

Parkes managed to gasp through the choking, “Is there something wrong with the money?”

He tried to loosen his neck-band; it seemed to be choking him.

How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'

Another video that went viral showed Blanc choking women in Tokyo.

But I could not speak; I could only gape, choking and giddy.

“His language in the hearing” to describe the choking “was that it was a ‘gentle caress,’” Sclove remembered.

(aside to her son) choking the cratur is with the words he can't get out.

choking, he managed with numbed fingers to screw his helmet on.