Choking: alternatives and connections

Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.

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Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.

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The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

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Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

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To set up; to put upright.

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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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Suffocated; choked.

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Suffocated; choked.

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of Smother

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of Strangle

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The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

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of Suffocate

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Tending or able to choke or stifle.

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of Throttle

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