choked
/t͡ʃoʊkt/ adjective B2- Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
- Blocked or obstructed by thick material, often plant growth.
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The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice.
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:—
They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked.
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