Strangling
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
Choking
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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).
Example sentence: Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.