What is another word for choking?
Synonyms for choking
ˈtʃoʊ kɪŋchok·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
chokingnoun
a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
Synonyms:
throttling, strangulation, stranglingchoking, strangling, strangulation, throttlingnoun
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
"no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
Synonyms:
throttling, strangulation, strangling
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List of paraphrases for "choking":
asphyxia, suffocating, asphyxiation, suffocation, strangling, stifling
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26750 | choking | |
#51207 | stifling | |
#56694 | suffocation | |
#64572 | throttling | |
#68828 | suffocating | |
#81040 | strangling | |
#86904 | strangulation | |
#89056 | asphyxia | |
#96406 | asphyxiation |
How to use choking in a sentence?
I wanted to let go, I just couldn't let go. I felt like something just took over me, and I was choking him.
… I could have died, choking on my own vomit.
He started hurting my mom by physically choking her and strangling her, he was about to hit her but thankfully my mom deflected the hit, but it hit her chest instead of her face.
Something just took over me, and I was just choking him, he just kind of stood there, and I just felt bad, what I did.
This is an individual who was a very public champion of women's rights, who in fact introduced anti-choking legislation, and he was, according to multiple women in this story, choking them, among other things.
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