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Definition: Choking |
ChokingAdjective1. 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". Noun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "choking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The application of a fine material to a surface, to reduce surface voids or to cover a bituminous binder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Choking, progressive or not, of a porous or fibrous layer or of an apparatus by deposits of solid or liquid particles ; obstruction of the pores of a filter by deposition of solid matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Stoppage of flow, due to obstructed discharge, sticky material, packed andcompacted fines, or bad control. (references) |
Physics | A condition which arises in the flow through a duct as the mean speed approaches the sonic value in which, at a given upstream pressure, a decrease in the downstream pressure produces no increase in the rate of mass flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In medical use, choking is the blocking of a person's trachea by a foreign object, vomitus, blood or other fluids. Choking is a medical emergency.
The first aid for choking is to call for help using the emergency telephone number, then to clear the obstruction from the airway using abdominal thrusts aka the Heimlich maneuver and/or artificial respiration. Intubation is the advanced medical procedure indicated, which can be performed by paramedics in the field. See airway obstruction.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Choking."
Synonyms: ChokingSynonyms: smothering (adj), suffocating (adj), suffocative (adj), strangling (n), strangulation (n), throttling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Choking |
| English words defined with "choking": asphyxia, aspiration penumonia ♦ choke ♦ fret ♦ gag ♦ Heimlich maneuver, Heimlich manoeuver ♦ smothering, strangling, strangulation, suffocating, suffocative ♦ throttling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "choking": Koch freezing process ♦ MORTGAGE ♦ Ravenstone ♦ single-roll breaker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "choking": Choke. (references) |
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Screenplays | Whatever he sucked out of her, he's choking on (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Then the mugger, he comes to and he starts choking me (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I'm choking the alligator (Stranger Than Paradise; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch) It's alright, he's only choking! (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth) And my mother grabbed a handful of after-dinner mints, and she started choking on them (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich) | |
Lyrics | Choking for life, brain is now numb (Manic Demise; performing artist: The Creation) There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Heimlich Maneuver: How to Save a Choking Victim: 2nd Edition (1988) | |
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 | "These Republic of Korea troops move into the line from Wanjin, Korea in a cloud of choking dust that characterizes the discomfort of all troops operating in Korea today." "This photo was taken by U.S. Navy Combat Camerman on the way to join the Marine Corps in the beleagured hills of Korea in the Chinese Spring Offensive campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p. Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 24 May 1951. The U.S. Army truck carrying the ROK troops also appears to be towing a wooden pole.. |  | Burnt out. This Ada County, Idaho, man and wife had come to the end of a losing battle against the choking drought when the Resettlement Administration came to their aid with a rehabilitation loan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Choking cough. |
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Health | Sleep apnea can also be characterized by choking sensations. (references) | |
These can cause choking or damage to the person’s jaw, tongue, or teeth. (references) | ||
Roll the person on his or her side to prevent choking on any fluids or vomit. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Additionally, he found the following conditions in the case of rural India: the number of households exiting the low income groups is rising; rural and urban shares of many consumables purchased are equal; urbanization is creating rural demand for urban products; and lack of credit facilities and electrification are choking demand. (references) |
Human Rights | Haiti | However, in previous years, international organizations have documented other forms of mistreatment, such as burning with cigarettes, choking, hooding, and "kalot marassa" (severe boxing of the ears, which can result in eardrum damage). (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | They're the volunteers at the hospital choking back their tears for the hundredth time, caring for a baby struggling for life because of a mother who used drugs. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have proved we can bring down the deficit without choking off the recovery, without punishing seniors or the middle class, and without putting our national security at risk. |
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| "Choking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 82.54% of the time. "Choking" is used about 252 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 82.54% | 208 | 21,075 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.98% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.19% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 252 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "choking": Choking coil ♦ choking gas ♦ choking up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "choking": choking-point. | |
Ending with "choking": half-choking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "choking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خانق (smothery, stifling, strangling, stuffiness, stuffy, suffocating, throttling). (various references) | |
Chinese | " , 塞 (Choked, Clogged, Clogging). (various references) | |
Danish | tilstoppet (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, plugged), tilstopning (blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, clogging, fouling, loading, obstruction, occlusion, plugging, sticking), mætning (saturation), gasregulering (strangling, throttling), blokering (blanketing, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, hang-up, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, mute, obscuration, putting on the skid, scotching, skidding, spiking, stopping), afstrøning (blinding). (various references) | |
Dutch | choken (choke, strangle), verstopping (constipation, impediment, obstruction), smoring (throttling), dichtkoeken (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging), blokkering (atrioventricular block, binding, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, infiltration, interlock, jamming, locking, mute, muting, noise suppression, putting on the skid, skidding, squelch, stopping), afzanden (blinding), afdichting (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, grommet, labyrinth seal, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up, plug, seal, seal grommet, sealing, slab, weatherstrip). (various references) | |
Finnish | tukkeutuminen (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, loading), sirotteen levitys (blinding), kuristaminen, hiekoitus (blinding). (various references) | |
French | colmatation, colmatage, sablage, obstruction, engorgement (chocking-up), encrassement (chocking-up), bouchage, blocage de la veine, amorçage, étranglement des gaz, étranglement (choke), étouffant. (various references) | |
German | würgend (retching). (various references) | |
Greek | έμφραξη (blockage, infarction, occlusion), στόμωση (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, dulling), στραγγαλισμός ροής ρευστού, στραγγαλισμός (girdling, oppression of blood flow, strangling, throttling), πιάσιμο του φίλτρου με στερεές ουσίες (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging), φράξιμο (blanking, blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, clogging), επιπλήρωση (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, enrichment of the soil with loam, silting), επίστρωση (coat of paint, covering, veneer), ασφυξία (asphyxia, asphyxiation, suffocation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מח ק (stifling, strangulation, suffocation, sultriness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elfojtás (masking, quenching, repression, smothering, suppression). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sesenggukan (in gasps). (various references) | |
Italian | tappamento (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging), strozzato, strozzamento (constricting, drawing down, strangling, strangulation, throttling), soffocante (stifling, suffocating, sultry, sweltering), soffocamento (choke, suffocation), sabbiatura (sand-bath, sandblasting), riduzione del gas (strangling, throttling), otturazione (blocking, closing, filling, sealing, stopping, stuffing), ostruzione (blockage, obstruction), intasamento (block, choke, stoppage), ingorgo (blockage, choke, engorgement, hold up, jam). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チューリング機械 (chalk, chock, choco, chocolate, cutting sound, snipping sound, to cut, tulip, tune, Tunisia, Turing machine), 息苦しい (oppressive, suffocating). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チョーキング , いきぐるしい (oppressive, suffocating). (various references) | |
Korean | 질식시킴 (smothering, stifling). (various references) | |
Manx | toghtey (choke, clog, clogging, dyspnoea, foul, garrotte, jugulate; strangling, strangle, strangulation, throttle, throttling), plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | okingchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | colmatagem (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, enrichment of the soil with loam, formation plugging, plugging, silting), estrangulamento do gás (strangling, throttling), espalhamento de areia (blinding), entupimento (choke, clog, obstruction), afogamento (drowning). (various references) | |
Romanian | sufocant (airless, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry), înãbuşitor (airless, oppressive, stifling, stuffy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gušenje (stifling, strangulation, suppression). (various references) | |
Spanish | colmateo (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging), riego de arena (blinding, dressing, gritting, sand spreading, sanding), obstrucción (bar, barrier, block, blockage, clog, dam, fence, goaf, jam, lumber, obstruction, stoppage), extensión de arena (blinding, dressing, gritting, sand spreading, sanding), estrangulación de gases (strangling, throttling), esparcimiento de arena (blinding, dressing, gritting, sand spreading, sanding), enarenado (blinding, dressing, gritting, sand crêpe, sand spreading, sanding), bloqueo (block, blockade, blockage, deadlock, freezing, locking, tie up, whitewash), atasco (bind, clog, clogging, jam, traffic jam), atascamiento (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging). (various references) | |
Swedish | igensättning (blinding, blockage of the filter, clogging, gumming, loading), avsandning (blinding). (various references) | |
Turkish | boğucu (asphyxiant, choky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry). (various references) | |
Welsh | tagfa (strangling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "choking": chokingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "choking": unchoking. (additional references) | |
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"Choking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cehovin, Chaikin, charking, Chaykin, cheeking, chirking, choeing, chokings, chosing, cokin, croking, hokin, hoking, Hokinga, Schukin, shoking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "choking" (pronounced khō"king) |
| 4 | -ō" k i ng | antismoking, broking, cloaking, coking, croaking, evoking, invoking, joking, nonsmoking, poking, provoking, revoking, smoking, soaking, stoking, stroking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, chucking, clanking, clicking, clucking, cocking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, politicking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, snaking, sneaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, streaking, striking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hocking. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coking, hoking. | |
-2 letters: chink, chino, coign, hoick, incog, ohing. | |
-3 letters: chin, chon, cion, coin, coni, conk, gink, hick, hock, hong, honk, icon, ikon, inch, king, kino, nick, nigh, nock, oink. | |
-4 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, ghi, gin, hic, hin, hog, hon, ich, ick, ink, ion, khi, kin, koi, nog, noh. | |
-5 letters: go, hi, ho, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: chocking, hoicking, shocking. | |
+2 letters: chokingly, havocking, unchoking. | |
+3 letters: hopsacking, hummocking, shockingly, shylocking. | |
+4 letters: checkrowing, cornhusking, hopsackings. | |
+5 letters: bodychecking, cockfighting, cornhuskings, forechecking, locksmithing, packinghouse, pitchforking, rockhounding, schnorkeling. | |
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