chokes

[ chohks ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a manifestation of caisson disease that is characterized by dyspnea, coughing, and choking. choke.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chokes¹

choke, -s ³

Example Sentences

If a toy chokes a few children it is (rightly) pulled from the market.

From The Daily Beast

Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.

From The Daily Beast

She reluctantly gulps it down, chokes, and allows little rivers of green juice to dribble from the corner of her mouth.

From The Daily Beast

Exhausted from the chronic pain that pulsates through her body day and night, she chokes up on the phone.

From The Daily Beast

A slushy dysfunctional housewife chokes on a sandwich in her kitchen and wakes up to find that she has been saved by God.

From The Daily Beast

Steam rises from many pools, and the sulphur smell almost chokes one.

From Project Gutenberg

The welcome home—the voices of innumerable strangers—the hand-grips of many friend—it chokes one—it cannot be uttered!

From Project Gutenberg

At any rate, between chokes, my "little pet" raised the most roof-splitting yells.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes, beastly cold, sunless hole; it kills every bit of a plant you put in, and the kitchen chokes them to death.

From Project Gutenberg

Grain returned in the tailings is liable to get cracked in the cylinder, and much chaff in the tailings chokes the cylinder.

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