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Definition of Chokes
1. choke [v] - See also: choke
Medical Definition of Chokes
1. A manifestation of decompression sickness or altitude sickness characterised by dyspnea, coughing, and choking. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chokes
Literary usage of Chokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist by Henry Cockton (1844)
"chokes would have begged of her to allow him to know hie own business, ...
Judkins and chokes now returned with a [adder—the only one in the village that ..."
2. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"Pride is joined with many virtues, chokes them all. 50. Pride, like anger, builds
among the stars, But pleasure, lark like, rests upon the ground. Young. ..."
3. An Illustrated Treatise on the Art of Shooting: With Extracts from the Best by Charles. Lancaster (1906)
"... OR " NON-chokes." I just touch on this subject, not with the view of advocating
the one or the other, but to show the difference between them. ..."
4. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"chokes in Grain-elevator Boots are due to various causes: 1. Elevating capacity
of the buckets is too small for the feed. ..."
5. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"The blood of Danton chokes thee !"* said Gamier of the Aube. Impatient of this
struggle, Duval rose and said, " President, is this man to be master of the ..."
6. The Bar Sinister by Richard Harding Davis (1903)
"Nolan tries to get me off the chain on to a showing-leash, but he shakes so, he
only chokes me. " What is it, miss ? " he says. " What is it ? ..."
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