choking out
Squeezing the throat
Choking out is a fighting technique where you cut off an opponent's air supply or blood flow to the brain using your arms or legs around their neck, forcing them to lose consciousness or submit.
In combat sports like mixed martial arts and jiu-jitsu, he choked him out in the second round describes a common submission victory.
The phrase extends to any situation where something is being squeezed out of existence: weeds choking out garden plants, or big corporations choking out small businesses.
- asphyxiationDeath from oxygen loss
- dominationSupreme authority held
- overgrowthUncontrolled plant expansion
- holdMaintain in grasp
- encroachmentGradual intrusion on territory
silencing · monoculture · strangulation · invasive species · suffocation · gasping for air · crowding · grip · stifle · displacement · censorship · shading · constriction · cutting off · overshadowing · crush · monopolization · throttling
choking outreviving
Restoring vitality or consciousness
resuscitating · waking up · rousing · awakening · coming to
choking outescaping
Departing confinement hastily
breaking free · tapping out · defending · reversing · countering
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