choking

IPA: tʃˈoʊkɪŋ

The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Examples of "choking" in Sentences

In some cases, choking is just a question of not being good enough.
"They call it choking," three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe said.
This occurrence, called aspiration, may result in choking, coughing and difficulty breathing.
Once with our longest and largest kitchen knife and then almost suceeded in choking me to death in my sleep.
The phrase choking under pressure has been used to describe what happens when people perform at a lower level than what they are capable of in high-stakes situations.
Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans.
One attendant, on the very day he had been discharged for choking a patient into an insensibility so profound that it had been necessary to call a physician to restore him, said to me, "They are getting pretty damned strict these days, discharging a man simply for _choking_ a patient."