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noun a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
noun the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
verb breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
originBy surface analysis, choke + -ing.
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