choking
/ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children."
- "The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons."
- "Choking occurs when the respiratory passage in the throat or windpipe is blocked."
- "Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings."
- "The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time."
- ""I applied,” says he in his first memoir, “a large plate of copper upon the pit of the stomach and a ring of the same metal around each limb: and in three or four minutes the chokings, palpitations, and vomitings ceased."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/