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To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).

Example: Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.

To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

Example: The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.

To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

Example: to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).

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 foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.