CHOKING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of choking in English choking Add to word list Add to word list present participle of choke chokeverb uk /tʃəʊk/ us /tʃoʊk/

choke verb (STOP BREATHING)

[ I or T ] If you choke, or if something chokes you, you stop breathing because something is blocking your throat: choke to death She choked to death on a fish bone.choke on Children can choke on peanuts. Peanuts can choke a small child. [ T ] to make someone stop breathing by pressing their throat with the hands Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing

• aerobic
• asphyxia
• asphyxiate
• asphyxiation
• aspiration
• breathable
• breathe a sigh of relief idiom
• choke
• expire
• huff
• huff and puff idiom
• inspiratory
• inspire
• intake of breath
• lungful
• non-breathing
• pant
• snuffle
• splutter
• stifle

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choke verb (FILL)

[ T usually passive ] (also choke up) to fill something such as a road or pipe, so that nothing can pass through: At lunchtime the streets were choked with traffic. Closing and blocking

• barricade
• batten
• batten down the hatches idiom
• be snowed up idiom
• block something off phrasal verb
• bung
• choke
• closet
• closing
• closing time
• congest
• cork
• dam
• fur
• reseal
• sandbag
• seal something in phrasal verb
• seal something off phrasal verb
• self-seal
• silt

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choke verb (FAIL)

[ I ] informal (also choke it) (usually in sports) to fail to do something at a time when it is urgent, usually because you suddenly lose confidence: He could score points at will during the qualifying matches, but in the final he completely choked. Failing and doing badly

• abjectly
• at-risk
• backbencher
• balls (something) up phrasal verb
• be on your beam ends idiom
• cliff
• fare badly
• fight a losing battle idiom
• flog
• flog a dead horse idiom
• flop
• hash
• overstretch
• pale
• pale into insignificance idiom
• pig
• rebound
• rot
• sink
• stiff

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Phrasal verbs

choke something back choke on something choke up choke up on something (Definition of choking from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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More meanings of choking

• choke
• choke on something
• choke up, at choke
• choke it, at choke
• choke up phrasal verb
• choke on something phrasal verb
• choke something back phrasal verb

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• choke up phrasal verb
• choke on something phrasal verb
• choke something back phrasal verb

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    • choke (STOP BREATHING)
    • choke (FILL)
    • choke (FAIL)

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