Illustration: At a small neighborhood restaurant, an adult diner has abruptly risen from a chair, both hands gripping the throat and mouth open without being able to speak. A partly eaten meal and dropped chopsticks show the sudden interruption.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

窒ちっ息そく

chissoku

to suffocate, to choke

Example sentences

彼かれは煙けむりに巻まかれて窒息ちっそくした。
He suffocated, smothered in smoke.
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お菓子かしで赤あかちゃんが窒息ちっそくするところだった。
The baby almost choked on a piece of candy.
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もちを食たべている時ときにのどに詰つまらせて窒息ちっそく死しする老人ろうじんがたくさんいる。
Many old people choke to death while eating mochi.
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Kanji in 窒息

窒plug up; obstructOnチツ
息breath; respirationOnソクKunいき

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