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say it: CHOH-king
choking is a noun meaning "a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
“no evidence that the choking was done by the accused”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for choking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.