Usually means: Failure to perform under pressure.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. choking: Merriam-Webster
  2. choking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. choking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. choking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Choking, choking: Wordnik
  6. choking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. choking: Wiktionary
  8. choking: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Choking, choking: Dictionary.com
  10. choking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Choking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Choking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. choking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. choking: Rhymezone
  15. Choking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. choking: FreeDictionary.org
  17. choking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. choking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. choking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. choking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. choking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Choking (object in airway): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Choking: Merck Manuals
  4. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. choking: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Choking (object in airway): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. choking: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. choking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (choking)

▸ noun:  The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
▸ noun:  The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
▸ noun:  The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Similar:
suffocating, strangling, breathless, strangulation, smothering, throttling, air choke, blood choke, choke-hold, chokehold, more...

Opposite:
breathing, inhaling, respiration, oxygenation, unobstructed

Types:
laryngospasm, asphyxiation, airway obstruction, more...

Phrases:
choking back, choking off, choking sensation, choking up, choking down, more...

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Similar:
suffocating, strangling, breathless, strangulation, smothering, throttling, air choke, blood choke, choke-hold, chokehold, more...

Opposite:
breathing, inhaling, respiration, oxygenation, unobstructed

Types:
laryngospasm, asphyxiation, airway obstruction, more...

Phrases:
choking back, choking off, choking sensation, choking up, choking down, choking coil, choking gas, choking coils, Choking game, Choking Victim, choking sound, choking out, choking on, voice choking in the throat, more...

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