ersticken — meaning in English

English meaning

• choke verb To be unable to breathe because something is blocking the throat or windpipe.
• choking noun The condition of having the airway blocked, making breathing difficult or impossible.
• damp adj Slightly wet; not dry but not soaking either.
• smother verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.
• stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
• suffocate verb To die, or cause someone to die, from lack of oxygen.

Senses

ersticken is used for these senses in English:

• choke (intransitive) 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).
• choke (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
• choke (transitive) 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).
• choking The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
• damp (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
• smother (dated) The state of being stifled; suppression.
• stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
• stifle (intransitive) To die of suffocation.

choke — full definition

1. verb To be unable to breathe because something is blocking the throat or windpipe.
2. verb To squeeze someone's throat so they cannot breathe; to strangle.
3. verb To perform badly under pressure at a crucial moment, especially when close to winning.
4. noun A valve that adjusts the fuel-air mixture in an engine, especially to help start it when cold.

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