choking

[ choh-king ]

/ ˈtʃoʊ kɪŋ /

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adjective

(of the voice) husky and strained, especially because of emotion.

causing the feeling of being choked: a choking cloud of smoke.

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Origin of choking

choke + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM choking

chok·ing·ly, adverb

Words nearby choking

choker, choker-setter, chokes, choke up, chokey, choking, choko, choky, chol-, chola, cholagogue

How to use choking in a sentence

I just couldn’t live anymore with the frustrations and emotional choking of trying to hide my private life—I couldn’t have a satisfactory private life.
Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy|Madeleine Carlisle|October 19, 2021|Time
To prevent choking, the researchers attached lanyards to the nonedible models.
Father-son bond inspires sweets that model the shapes of molecules|Carmen Drahl|June 30, 2021|Science News For Students
Once the researchers attached lanyards to the nonedible models to prevent choking, the team tested how well 281 college students and 31 grade schoolers could tell edible or nonedible models apart while blindfolded.
A sweet father-son bond inspires tasty new molecule models|Carmen Drahl|May 28, 2021|Science News
Unfortunately the doctor accidentally applied too much and soon Ruth was in agony and choking.
This Year's World Series Isn't the First Played During a Pandemic. Here's What Happened to Baseball in 1918|Melissa August|October 23, 2020|Time

She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.
Sia and Shia LaBeouf’s Pedophilia Nontroversy Over ‘Elastic Heart’|Marlow Stern|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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.
Bobby Shmurda and Rap’s Ultimate Hoop Dream|Rawiya Kameir|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Another video that went viral showed Blanc choking women in Tokyo.
‘Pick-Up Artist’ to Be Banned from UK|Tom Sykes|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Raising the Turkish flag was very healing for me, and I think a little for Turkey as well,” says Hayes, choking up a bit.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler|Marlow Stern|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Parkes managed to gasp through the choking, “Is there something wrong with the money?”
Inside London’s Wild Brixton Academy: How Gangsters and Kurt Cobain Made It London’s Top Music Venue|Tom Sykes|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
No doubt, even in these choking circumstances, childish feeling may now and again peep out.
Children's Ways|James Sully
And no sooner had she guessed it than, with a choking sob, she told herself that what madame could do that could she also.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
He was choking down a sob when he caught sight of some women with packs upon their backs.
The Later Cave-Men|Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
But Lasseroe was out of control now and he was choking the life out of Daisy Hennifer.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various