choking has definitions from the field of medicine
1
[ adjective ] causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

Examples

"the choking June dust" "the smothering soft voices" "smothering heat" "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

The road seemed animated with a few more wagons than usual ; a carriage raising_up the choking June dust , and beyond , in a meadow , a local militia company drilling with muskets , Kentuck ' rifles , every kind of horse pistol , old sword , or cutlass .

Related terms

breathless

2
[ noun ] (medicine) a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

Related terms

disorder suffocate

3
[ noun ] the act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe

Examples

"no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"

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