(a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
(a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
(2) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(3) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(4) Fourteen patients who were able to vocalize during the choking episode had probably suffered from esophageal impaction.
(5) With unemployment at a record as the debt-choked country endures a fifth consecutive year of recession, nearly 44% of the 907,953 out of work are between 15 and 24.
(6) In one experiment serial bronchial obstructions were made to determine whether flow-limiting sites (choke points, CP) would occur in series.
(7) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
(8) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(9) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(10) From 2008 to 2011, as the economy worsened and a wave of new restrictions choked abortion access around the country, online queries about self-induced abortion almost doubled , according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist who analyzes Google searches.
(11) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
(12) It was evidenced that, from point of view of mean flow, the airflow flowed at a rate of Vmax through the choke point during the second phase.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(14) A girl aged 13 years developed an acute unilateral Exophthalmos on the right side with disturbances of eye-motion, choked disc and nearly complete amaurosis within 3 days after onset.
(15) While some predicted their team would once again choke at the final hurdle, the chancellor had faith the “system” would be fully endorsed.
(16) The government further enraged Mubarak's opponents when it tried to cover up the killing by alleging he choked on a bag of drugs.
(17) The symptoms included inspiratory stridor, choking during eating, and aspiration.
(18) We examined the effects of the inhaled parasympatholytic agent atropine and the sympathomimetic agent salbutamol on partitioned frictional pressure (Pfr) losses to the site of flow limitation (choke point, CP) in dogs to see how changes brought about by these agents would affect maximum expiratory flow (Vmax) and response to breathing 80% He-20% O2 (delta Vmax) in terms of wave-speed theory of flow limitation.
(19) "Tax rises and spending cuts that go too far and too fast have crushed confidence and choked off the British recovery well before the eurozone crisis of recent months."
(20) 62: 2013-2025, 1987), we recently predicted that 1) axially arranged choke points can exist simultaneously during forced expiration with sufficient effort, and 2) overall maximal expiratory flow may be relatively insensitive to nonuniform airways obstruction because of flow interdependence between parallel upstream branches.
Suffocation
Definition:
(n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his only specific growth measure, he said Britain's planning laws would have to be scrapped so more housing could be built, vowing to scrap "the suffocating bureaucracy" that he said was holding economic growth back.
(2) Because of inspiration into the tracheo-bronchial aireays, regurgitation from purely oesophageal diseases can provoke various respiratory affections: acute broncho-pulmonary blocking broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary suppuration, night cough, fits of nocturnal suffocation, chronic bronchitis sometimes hemoptic.
(3) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
(4) If any of them is neglected or isolated from the rest, the whole will be impoverished-the student will suffocate in disconnected, empirical facts; fanciful theories will be spun from tenuous evidence; well established theory will be neglected by the practitioner; the best-intentioned schemes will have disastrous long-term consequences.
(5) But his growing band of critics fear the suffocation of democracy and human rights.
(6) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
(7) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
(8) I marvel now at how he learned to anchor himself – physically and mentally – in that suffocating darkness.
(9) This trip to Basel should, in theory, be as tough as it gets and that layer of insurance may have helped Hodgson’s team to play without feeling too suffocated by external pressures.
(10) In sum, we will render impotent the government's efforts to use its coercive pressure over corporations to suffocate not only WikiLeaks but any other group it may similarly target in the future.
(11) Every weekend ... you end up getting suffocated by what happens on the football field.
(12) "We are so used to seeing one idea of what a young man or woman is in the popular media," she says, adding that it is "suffocating" how homogeneously young people are represented on screen.
(13) Patients with advanced esophageal carcinoma with tracheobronchial obstruction usually present with severe dyspnea or hemoptysis or both and may die of suffocation.
(14) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
(15) The notoriously suffocating tone of the 50th anniversary in 1966, when veterans of 1916 were still alive and the all-Ireland republic was treated as unfinished business, has been replaced by a more open and inclusive approach today, as the rising recedes into history, though without diminishing its narrative potency.
(16) From 1 January, residents in India’s capital city, which had been suffocating under a blanket of smog in recent days, will only be able to drive on alternate days based on their licence plate number; odd numbers on one day, even on the other.
(17) Some were related to age group specific behaviour, such as drownings and falls in young children and suffocations in infants.
(18) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
(19) She died of the suffocation caused by bronchopneumonia at the age of 60 years.
(20) With Greece suffocating under capital controls and the banks fighting for survival under a mountain of bad debt, a main focus of the bailout programme is saving and reviving the banking sector through the recapitalisation of ailing financial institutions.