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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Choking \Chok"ing\, adjective
1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Choke \Choke\ (ch[=o]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Choked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Choking}.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [=a]ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]
1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak.
2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison.
3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden.
4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. ''I was choked at this word.'' --Swift.
5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
{To choke off}, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
choking
noun
1: a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
2: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: {strangling}, {strangulation}, {throttling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "choking": abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, asphyxia, asphyxiation, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, blurred, bottleneck, breathy, burking, burning out, burnout, cecum, choke, choked, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, constrictive, contrary, controlling, costiveness, counterproductive, croaking, crosswise, cul-de-sac, damping, dead end, deracination, dousing, drawling, drawly, drowning, dying, dysphonic, elimination, embolism, embolus, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fire fighting, flame-out, garrote, going out, gorge, guttural, harsh, hawking, hindering, hindersome, hoarse, impasse, impediment, in the way, inarticulate, indistinct, infarct, infarction, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, jam, killing, liquidation, lisping, liver death, megadeath, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, negation, nullification, obstacle, obstipation, obstructing, obstruction, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, purge, putting out, quashing, quavering, quenching, repressive, restrictive, rooting out, sealing off, serum death, shaking, shaky, silencing, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, snuffing out, snuffling, squashing, squelching, starvation, stifled, stifling, stop, stoppage, strangled, strangling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suppressive, thick, throaty, throttling, tremulous, troublesome, twangy, uprooting, velar, violent death, voiding, watery grave
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