choke
verb (used with object)
to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
am choking
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present progressiveof choke (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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He starts to cry, and I am choking, too, crying for an infant who never existed, the child of a woman I never knew.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
I get enough air then, but the cold raw air freezes the sides of my throat and blood vessels burst and my throat generates mucus and soon I am choking on it.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
"I am choking here!—I wish to leave!—take me away!"
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
"Nurse Rollet," she said on reaching the nurse's, "I am choking; unlace me!"
From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling
The atmosphere of the Court is so exquisitely rarefied and refined that I am choking in it.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
