LekhoriLekhoriThe process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children.
The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings.
The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered.
present participle and gerund of choke
By surface analysis, choke + -ing.
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