Choking Synonyms & Definitions

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• ChokingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. (a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
3. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choke

• ChokeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
2. (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
3. (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
4. (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
5. (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
6. (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
7. (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
8. (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
9. (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
10. (n.) The tied end of a cartridge.

• Choking coilDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; -- called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.