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Gagging vs Choking - What's the difference?

gagging | choking |

As verbs the difference between gagging and choking

is that gagging is present participle of lang=en while choking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gagging and choking

is that gagging is a gag motion or reflex while choking is the process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.

gagging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * gagging for it * gagging order

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gag motion or reflex.
    • She was restarted on L-DOPA later, in the middle of July, and this time the tongue-pulsions and gaggings were not evoked at all, but, on the contrary, a striking improvement occurred.'' — Oliver Sacks, ''Awakenings .

    choking

    English

    (wikipedia choking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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