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chokedamp

chokedamp noun: a damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.

Noun

chokedamp (usually uncountable, plural chokedamps)

  1. (usually) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
    • "Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about." "I didn't know." She looked at me with rather more interest.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of chokedamp

pluralchokedamps

Origin of chokedamp

From choke + damp.

Questions about chokedamp

What does chokedamp mean?
Chokedamp means a damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
What part of speech is chokedamp?
Chokedamp is a noun.
What is the plural of chokedamp?
The plural of chokedamp is chokedamps.

Words near chokedamp in the dictionary

  1. choked on
  2. choked out
  3. choked the chicken
  4. choked the luff
  5. choked up
  6. chokedamp
  7. chokedamps
  8. chokedar
  9. chokedars
  10. chokeful
  11. chokefull

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